Another classic! An everyday earring! Solid Silver Egg, 12 x 9mm, with a simple loop, hangs from an LMS ear wire Softly hand textured with polished highlights, it is incredibly tactile In some Asian cultures, the egg is seen as a symbol of luck and wealth The shape of an egg has neither beginning nor end, reflecting the idea of rebirth and rejuvenation How did the egg shape evolve? - An international team of scientists led by researchers at Harvard and Princeton universities, with colleagues in the UK, Israel and Singapore, took a quantitative approach to this question. Using methods and ideas from mathematics, physics and biology, they characterized the shape of eggs from about 1,400 species of birds and developed a model that explains how an egg’s membrane determines its shape. Using an evolutionary framework, the researchers found that the shape of an egg correlates with flight ability, suggesting that adaptations for flight may have been critical drivers of egg-shape variation in birds East Indian history indicates that wildfowl were domesticated as early as 3200 B.C. Egyptian, and Chinese records show that fowl were laying eggs for man in 1400 B.C. Europe has had domesticated hens since 600 B.C Handmade from LMS castings
