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Veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a “fascinating and delightful...globetrotting tour” ( Wall Street Journal ) with the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization—the chicken. In a masterful combination of historical sleuthing and journalistic adventure, veteran reporter Andrew Lawler “opens a window on civilization, evolution, capitalism, and ethics” ( New York ) with a fascinating account of the most successful of all cross-species relationships—the partnership between human and chicken. This “splendid book full of obsessive travel and research in history” ( Kirkus Reviews ) explores how people through the ages embraced the chicken as a messenger of the gods, an all-purpose medicine, an emblem of resurrection, a powerful sex symbol, a gambling aid, a handy research tool, an inspiration for bravery, the epitome of evil, and, of course, the star of the world’s most famous joke. Queen Victoria was obsessed with the chicken. Socrates’s last words embraced it. Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur used it for scientific breakthroughs. Religious leaders of all stripes have praised it. Now neuroscientists are uncovering signs of a deep intelligence that offers ins

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Author

Andrew Lawler

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476729916

Category

science

Subjects

History, Nature, Agriculture

Rating

3.64 / 5 (218 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14