So did most other kinds of egg. But none of those kinds of egg were in the riddle. I don't think so. It's about fowl and ova, just as the sound of one hand clapping is about hands and sound. Its purpose is to make you think about relationships and cycles. Beginnings and ends are irrelevant: it's the endless feedback loop you're supposed to contemplate. (Philosophers have always been a bit wonky-doodle.)
You can infer that "the egg" is a chicken egg but that inference is by no means inherent in the riddle. Riddles are typically worded ambiguously. What's black and white and red (read) all over?
A) - newspaper - dispute read all over B) - nun, badly bleeding, rolling down stairs - dispute red all over Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Reminds me of one told by my English teacher back in the mid 6os, when I was about 12: What's red outside, black inside and screams? A busload of n*****s going over Beachy Head. We all thought it was funny and nobody was shocked. Shows what attitudes were like, back then, in London.
offered IMHO only: Mutual symbiotic evolution with humans initiating the domestication of wheat. Humans were hunter-gatherers and saw a food source. it doesn't matter where the source was or what it was, some random human (likely in multiple areas at once) had the idea that they could minimize effort while maximizing efficiency by limiting travel and supplying their own food. Their surplus could be used as collateral for [x] in order to gain an advantage. it speaks volumes about how lazy can be effectively used for efficiency. the egg would have had to come first, regardless of the species, as we evolved into multicellular organisms from a single cell and as such require growth from a primitive state to a complex state. The egg is just a primitive state where it grows and develops. Humans also have eggs they develop from. Or, you could just be like me and take the humour side of this: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! can I hear an AMEN? oh wait...
alternately Being as we (human cells) ain't even 1/2 of the cells in/on our bodies: Perhaps, we are somewhat controlled by the appetites of our guest cells Perhaps after eating wheat, we adopted gut bacteria who really like wheat and it is they who directed our appetites and labors? all is a guess
Not sure why the number of eggs are in question I do know females (human) ***** women are born with approximately two million eggs in their ovaries https://www.infertile.com/beating-biological/ ****** Had to double check, I was going to put thousands Talk about redundancy Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Humans have eggs! Humans have eggs! Who needs a stupid chicken? Thank you. That puts 'paid' to the 'which came first' conundrum.
