It hit me, the realization everyone gets when they are about to achieve something significant like graduation. We remember where we came from, where it – our life began. We start to remember our life up until now, what we have learned, what we have done, the experiences we have had, and how prepared for […]
Deep History and Domestication Chicken Research Project Erica Largen Spring 2013 Virginia Tech UH3004, Deep History and Domestication, is a university honors colloquium that explores the cultural and biological implications of domestication for humans and other species, using examples extending from the first archaeological evidence of domestication to the recent past. Check out my animal domestication blog I […]
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embryology The chicken egg played the key role in the development of the field of embryology. Ancient Egypt aound 1400 B.C. is the starting point for informed embryonic curiosity, which is of intriguing relation to the history of humanity; even at the darkest of times babies were born and it would be difficult not to […]
Having requirements for uniformity in our personal lives transfer to the want for uniformity in basic life of the chicken (genotype, breed, feed, production process) (Barbato, 1999 p. 32). Galusky suggests that we have not only made uniform the chicken body, but too the interactions of humans who still produce, haul, and process chickens (Galusky, […]
From Dinosaur to primitive bird to… supermarket discount? Although chickens thrive as a species – in the sense that billions of them roam the earth, accounting for about 80% of the global population of domestic animals (Barbato, 1999) – what do the ways that we treat our stock of uniform chicken meat production today say about the […]
Entertaining the age-old question, “Which came first the chicken or the egg?” was a necessary side note. Now, it’s time to shake a tail feather and get to the story we’ve all been waiting for: Long long ago, when chickens had teeth… 230 Million years ago, the theropods had begun their rise in two categories […]
“Chickens have always been good to think with. For people in a wide range of fields, chickens have provided a useful, and at times inspiring, focus.” Susan Squier explains in her book a Poultry Science: Chicken Culture,“Diverse types of people have found the chicken weaving its way into their thoughts, dreams, and deeds shaking up the […]