Where did the chicken come from?
The chicken is the world’s most common farm animal as well as humanity’s largest single source of animal protein. Some 24 billion strong, it not only outnumbers all other birds but also humans by more than two to one. Yet for two centuries, biologists have struggled to explain how the chicken became the chicken.
Quickly skim read the article about the origin of chickens and select the correct answer.
Scientists now believe that chickens originated in:
South East Asia
Northern China
South America
Read the article again and identify the following statements as True, False or Not Given.
Previous research found that chickens first became domestic animals in northern Thailand
Dorian Fuller believes the study may explain what attracted people to chickens.
Archaeologists used chicken bones to determine when and where chickens were domesticated.
The project to obtain genetic samples of Asian and African chickens and fowl was completed in 2019.
The findings of Wang's research support a previous Japanese opinion about the origin of chickens.
Scientists now have a complete understanding of why humans first domesticated the birds.
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