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Evolution to Domestication
Chicken Ethology + Humans
How domestication altered the Chicken (& implications for human culture)
Chicken significance to human culture development
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Chicken Evolutionary History and Domestication

The Chicken Egg as an Embryo, The Avian Flu and other reasons why the chicken is significant to the development of a human culture

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 […]

Evolutionary History of the Chicken (pigeon, and other birds) + Domestication

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 […]