Mihos Wrote:
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> As this is a field Ive puttered in occasionally I
> am more than a little taken aback when people
> speak with so much authority about the chicken as
> if it is a homologous piece of quesedilla or
> something. Thousands of papers are published every
> decade, really hard edged cutting edge work.
> Yamashina was cutting edge with karyotype back in
> his day and scientists of later generations
> disagreed with his theories. Newer generations
> took up other approaches and it was learned that
> European chickens with the same name as Asian ones
> were more often than not derived of polluted
> genetics due to wars and so on. Japan's domestic
> fowl conservationists did not have this problem.
> What is more Yamashina discovered chickens in Peru
> and Oceania that proved more interesting than any
> in Japan.

CITES.............. (on Peruvian chicken research, & ONLY on Oceanic chicken research relating to this..... NOT on Gallus evolution from millions of years ago, or redundant chicken domestication stuff that we already know about).

Kenuchelover.