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The Silk Road is known for many things, such as trade, the spread of ideas and rituals, while new research suggests it also helped the humble and ubiquitous chicken conquer the world. Archaeologists have long found fragile eggshells and bones at settlements in southern Central Asia. Chickens also appear in Central Asian art dating back thousands of years. Now, recent advances in gene-sequencing technology have allowed scientists to date the spread of the domesticated chicken across this pivotal trade network, Eurasianet says , noting that a team led by Robert Spengler of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of...
