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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Lawler, Andrew.     Subjects     Chickens -- History.     Civilization -- History.     Animals and civilization -- History.     Human-animal relationships -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lawler, Andrew.       by title:      Why did the chicken ...         MARC Display

Why did the chicken cross the world? [electronic resource] : the epic saga of the bird that powers civilization / Andrew Lawler. by Lawler, Andrew. New York : Atria Books, 2014. Subjects Chickens -- History.   Civilization -- History.   Animals and civilization -- History.   Human-animal relationships -- History. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=FB7D7C16-474D-4065-BB23-C526B2BAE3E2 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{FB7D7C16-474D-4065-BB23-C526B2BAE3E2}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781476729916 (electronic bk.) 1476729913 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  "From ancient empires to modern economics, veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a sweeping history of the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization across the globe--the chicken. In Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?, science writer Andrew Lawler takes us on an adventure from prehistory to the modern era with a fascinating account of the partnership between human and chicken (the most successful of all cross-species relationships). Beginning with the recent discovery in Montana that the chicken's unlikely ancestor is T. rex, this book builds on Lawler's popular Smithsonian cover article, How the Chicken Conquered the World to track 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 masterful 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. For no other siren has called humans to rise, shine, and prosper quite like the rooster's cry: Cock-a-doodle-doo!"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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