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100 1 $aLawler, Andrew.
245 10 $aWhy did the chicken cross the world? :$bthe epic saga of the bird that powers civilization /$cAndrew Lawler.
250 $aFirst Atria Books hardcover edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bAtria Books,$c2014.
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300 $aix, 324 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 267-309) and index.
505 0 $aNature's Mr. Potato Head -- The carnelian beard -- The healing clutch -- Essential gear -- Thrilla in Manila -- Giants upon the scene -- The harlequin's sword -- The little king -- Feeding Babalu -- Sweater girls of the barnyard -- Gallus archipelago -- The intuitive physicist -- A last cause.
520 2 $aFrom ancient empires to modern economics, science reporter Andrew Lawler delivers a sweeping history of the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization across the globe -- the chicken. Queen Victoria was obsessed with it. Socrates' last words were about it. Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur made their scientific breakthroughs using it. Catholic popes, African shamans, Chinese philosophers, and Muslim mystics praised it. Throughout the history of civilization, humans have embraced it in every form imaginable -- as a messenger of the gods, powerful sex symbol, gambling aid, emblem of resurrection, all-purpose medicine, handy research tool, inspiration for bravery, epitome of evil, and, of course, as the star of the world's most famous joke. Beginning with the recent discovery in Montana that the chicken's unlikely ancestor is T. rex, this book tracks the chicken from its original domestication in the jungles of Southeast Asia some 10,000 years ago to postwar America, where it became the most engineered of animals, to the uncertain future of what is now humanity's single most important source of protein. In a combination of historical sleuthing and journalistic exploration on four continents, Lawler reframes the way we feel and think about our most important animal partner -- and, by extension, all domesticated animals, and even nature itself. Lawler's narrative reveals the secrets behind the chicken's transformation from a shy jungle bird into an animal of astonishing versatility, capable of serving our species' changing needs.
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