Comment on How and why did humans start consuming chicken eggs?
over_clox@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoStill, it kinda begs the bigger question…
When exactly did our ancient ancestors observe that eggs come from a creature’s ass, and decide ‘hey, this is okay to eat, let’s make it a daily breakfast’?
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Exactly! I mean… some reptiles eat eggs, so we could be talking about something that happened before our ancestors had developed the concept of an ass. I don’t think it’s far-fetched to think that eating eggs may be as old a concept as eggs themselves. In that case, the first egg-eaters evolved alongside the first egg-layers, and were eating proto-eggs before even the modern egg existed.
Imagine if zebras started evolving very tough placentas over time, and the foals started lying around in them for a couple days before popping out: Lions would keep eating newborn zebras, and no single lion generation would notice that they were slightly different from 1000 years prior. Give that development a million years or whatever and you now have egg-laying zebras and egg-eating lions!
over_clox@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Egg laying zebras? Are you trying to corrupt the AI overlords?
Please continue…