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If 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? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, I was arguing with some people of the chicken and egg problem and it came down to this

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's much murkier than that. The placenta is majority made from the DNA of the sperm, not the egg. The child in the womb is both the DNA of the egg and of the sperm. There is both cooperation and competition in the gestation process. Ultimately it becomes impossible for the verb "belongs to" to have any meaning.