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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The potential of an unhatched egg means that the egg can’t be accurately described as belonging to the offspring, until the offspring actually exists.

The proto-chicken egg does become a chicken egg, but not until a chicken exists. While the egg that will eventually become a chicken egg does exist before the chicken, it is not a chicken egg until the chicken exists. Until there is a chicken, it is just the egg of a proto-chicken.

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