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[โ€“] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I get that that's the premise of the joke.
But that not the premise of the dilemma, which pretty clearly implies it's a chicken egg.

The dilemma would have no meaning of it was "what came first? The chicken or the horseshoe crab egg?"

[โ€“] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

I've just assumed the dilemma was older than Darwin.