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008			140929s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2014031979
020			_a9781476729893 (hardback)
020			_a1476729891 (hardback)
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050	0	0	_aSF487.7 _b.L28 2014
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100	1		_aLawler, Andrew.
245	1	0	_aWhy did the chicken cross the world? : _bthe epic saga of the bird that powers civilization / _cAndrew Lawler.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAtria Books, _c2014.
300			_aix, 324 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520	2		_a"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. 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. 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!"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_a1. Nature's Potato Head -- 2. The Carnelian Beard -- 3. The Healing Clutch -- 4. Essential Gear -- 5. Thrilla in Manila -- 6. Giants Upon the Scene -- 7. The Harlequin's Sword -- 8. The Little King -- 9. Feeding Babalu -- 10. Sweater Girls of the Barnyard -- 11. Gallus Archipelago -- 12. The Intuitive Physicist -- 13. A Last Cause.
650		0	_aChickens _xHistory.
650		0	_aCivilization _xHistory.
650		0	_aAnimals and civilization _xHistory.
650		0	_aHuman-animal relationships _xHistory.
650		7	_aHISTORY / World. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aNATURE / Animals / Birds. _2bisacsh
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