DNA reveals how the chicken crossed the sea
@article{Borrell2007DNARH,
title={DNA reveals how the chicken crossed the sea},
author={Brendan Borrell},
journal={Nature},
year={2007},
volume={447},
pages={620-621}
}Nature 447, 620-621 (7 June 2007) | doi:10.1038/447620b; Published online 6 June 2007 DNA reveals how the chicken crossed the sea Brendan Borrell Abstract Ancient Polynesians may have brought birds to the Americas. The discovery of chicken bones with Polynesian DNA at an archaeological site in Chile has adde controversial theory that ancient seafarers from the south Pacific visited the New World long be When the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro first visited Peru in 1532, he noted the… Expand
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