No thank you. The eggs would have to be enormous to develop into a human baby, and laying one of those every month would suck.
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Dinosaurs were pretty big too
Yeah but the babies were small, which is what matters here.
But their newborns were tiny.
And how much are you asking for in research funding?
Yup. Eggs>livebirth. They're also easier to expel because the shell helps it to slide through. Once you get it about 2/3rds of the way out, simply relaxing causes the rest to come out on its own. Still painful, but at least goes part of the way itself. Plus you don't have to deal with a squirming, screaming creature wanting to gorge itself on your nutrient sacks while you're trying to recover.
Shock eggs are horrifying though. Yanno, when you thought your boyfriend pulled out and then you accidently commit infanticide.
Edit: don't ask what happens if the shell breaks while it's still inside. You don't wanna know. Be thankful you're approaching this evolutionary step voluntarily and not due to natural evolution. Evolution sometimes decides that those kinds of questions aren't worth bothering with. You're lucky though. When the time comes, you'll get to choose how you want your eggs done.
Gonna give Easter Eggs a whole new dimension.
Edit: don’t ask what happens if the shell breaks while it’s still inside. You don’t wanna know. Be thankful you’re approaching this evolutionary step voluntarily and not due to natural evolution. Evolution sometimes decides that those kinds of questions aren’t worth bothering with. You’re lucky though. When the time comes, you’ll get to choose how you want your eggs done.
I wasn't gonna until you said this
Is this how you get chicken nuggets?
Once you get it about 2/3rds of the way out, simply relaxing causes the rest to come out on its own.
The hard part of pushing out a baby is far less than 2/3 of the baby. Once you get past the shoulders they just slide out. And they are pretty slippery with all that amniotic fluid.
Yeah but a baby has to be in the correct orientation and has to change orientation as it traverses the birth canal otherwise you’ll run into issues. An egg is rotationally symmetric along an axis so it’s much easier to push out. It’ll naturally rotate into the correct orientation and doesn’t need to be rotated.
You know damn well lawmakers would make omelettes illegal
A single shoot for everything like the cloaca sounds terrible though
Return to monotreme.
Ever raise chicks? It’s very informative of what egglaying requires.
Keep in mind the animals that lay eggs have a type of body that can sit and incubate and often it requires both parents to sit.
Additionally sit- Incubating this way is super inefficient and means you have to sit in one place to keep a constant temperature as opposed to our current strapped on method which means the child is constantly incubated in an ideal environment leaving the parent free to do things like keep a job to support child/hunt for food.
It has the best means for survival as you don’t end up leaving your embryo to be snatched or crushed.
And usually if your holding a child you’re also supplying milk which means the parent only has to look after feeding themselves traditionally while supplying milk which is far more readily available vitamins for the baby.
If anything you have to be much more dedicated with your time and intention and worry to be an egg layer.
Yes, my parents used to have chickens. It's unlikely that the incubation period would be 9 months and being oviparous has It's own challenges. If humans did evolve that route I'd imagine that we'd have overcome most of the issues. Dinosaurs being one example, it's possible humans would be cold blooded and have learned the joy of regurgitation. It comes down to speculation whether human like intelligence could have evolved with these limitations.
Hasn't it been discovered that dinosaurs were largely warm blooded like the birds they evolved into?
The more you know. So it could be more likely that humans sat on their eggs to keep them warm, or they would have been limited to tropical climates. Humans would have evolved very differently regardless.
Eggs are bird periods
If I had access to the human ones I'd have those for breakfast but until then I'm just going to be eating bird period on toast every morning :(
Conservative: Eggs are birds, period.
Scientist: Eggs are a bird period.
Lemming: Eggs are bird periods
Yeah, nah mate. Shiela’s should grow a pouch, eh?
-Easier birth control: Make the egg into an omelette
That's abortion, at least going by bird eggs.
Much safer than whatever people did before abortion clinics, though!
I already lay eggs, but I don't think you want to go near them
The GOP would have you tried for murder if you didn't incubate. I'm not sure why you think their stance of not allowing women control of their own bodies would change.
It did brush my mind as I'm still baffled about some abortion laws even if there's no brain development. But if it was an egg, it would be hard to enforce it and some eggs aren't fertilized. I bet someone would try to outlaw having a miscarriage if they could.
Considering some states are already doing criminal investigations around miscarriages, probably.
The thing with eggs is that they would probably have to be huge. I guess that the egg would maybe have to be 10x the size of the finished baby (Idk for sure though) due to inefficiencies in the food metabolism. While for chickens, that's not a problem because the babies are small, for humans it would be difficult.
"ohh yeah cum inside me" will now be changed into "ohh yeah bukkake right onto this egg i just laid"
Isn't that just fish?
I thought birds still fuc
If by "fuc" you mean pushing cloaca at each other then yes they fuck. But for most bird species males don't have a penis for penetration
What is it for then?
it is a short tube inside the cloaca used as a outlet for the sperm so it can flow out of the male cloaca.
Sexy
Ops focus on a singular “nicely packaged “ egg made me unable to consider anything else then bird eggs.
I was so confused by your comment, i had to look it up.
There’s a movie about that. Well, it’s about high-tech incubator eggs that promise relief from the toils of pregnancy so mothers can go on working (so they can afford said proprietary incubator eggs). Not a great movie, but it was interesting. Don’t remember the title unfortunately.