Get Rich Slow by Tama McAleese opens with the following preface, attributed to an unknown author.
A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in the nest of a backyard hen. The eagle hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the backyard chickens did, [...]

Such questions of human curiosity (and a muffled personal guffaw given the career choice of one of my close family members) are addressed in the book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.
Frankly, this is one book I wish everyone would read. In a quick and [...]