How the Chicken Crossed the World: The Story of the Bird that Powers Civilisations

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How the Chicken Crossed the World: The Story of the Bird that Powers CivilisationsQueen Victoria was obsessed with it. Socrates' last words were about it. Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur made their scientific breakthroughs using it. Hailed as a messenger of the gods, powerful sex symbol, gambling aid, all purpose medicine and handy research tool, the humble chicken has been also cast as the epitome of evil, and the star of the world's most famous joke. Beginning with the recent discovery, that the chicken's unlikely ancestor is

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