speculation about if humans laid eggs
@frameacloud @kistaro Stephen Jay Gould wrote a good essay about the kiwi's egg--basically it's an artifact of the kiwi having descended from much larger birds
in adapting to a niche where a smaller body was better, the egg remained the same size as it had been in the larger ancestors, because it wasn't a big enough _disadvantage_ to get selected out
it's, like...conservation of change, or something, haha. if stuff doesn't actually _hurt_ it doesn't change