Spectre@lemmy.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · 3 months agoIf a proto-chicken lays an egg and a chicken comes out of it, was the egg a chicken egg or a proto-chicken’s egg?message-squaremessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up112arrow-down1message-squareIf a proto-chicken lays an egg and a chicken comes out of it, was the egg a chicken egg or a proto-chicken’s egg?Spectre@lemmy.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · 3 months agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-text
minus-square201dberg@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 months agoTechnically the earliest life reproduced without eggs and evolved eggs as a means to reproduce later. So at some point in existence the ancestors of chickens existed without eggs. So all eg laying life existed at one point before eggs were a thing.
Technically the earliest life reproduced without eggs and evolved eggs as a means to reproduce later. So at some point in existence the ancestors of chickens existed without eggs. So all eg laying life existed at one point before eggs were a thing.