Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?

by Andrew Lawler
Category: "Nature/Science"
Pages:264
Year of Publication:2014
Date Added:02/07/2019
Date Read:02/05/2019
Notes:Subtitle:The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

A essay-style history of how the Red Jungle Fowl of southeast Asia was domesticated and changed into the modern chicken. The author delves into when the chicken first arrived in different areas of the world, how it is used in various cultures and religious traditions, and how it has been transformed into one of the world's most important food products.
My Rating: 5

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Review - Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?

The is some interesting information here, but to find it I had to wade through a lot of dull, poorly arranged jumbles of fact-dumping and a heavy evolutionary and anti-Bible bias.
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