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[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

An egg is technically a single cell. So, eggs came first as those were the first forms of life.

[–] androogee@midwest.social 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Eggs are single cells, but all single cells are not eggs.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

If they were, we'd be made up of about 30 trillion eggs each

[–] abnv@infosec.pub -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Due to evolution, unicellular became Multicellular.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

They know, but the person they originally responded to is making a faulty inference in the form of "pigs = mammals, mammals emerged at X date, pigs emerged at X date". They aren't properly recognizing that eggs are a distinct subset of unicellular organism (which I also think isn't actually true of fertilized eggs) and you can't infer from the set "unicellular organisms" having a trait that "eggs" has the same trait.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

And then cellular became 5G and gave us all COVID.