Scientists have recently discovered a DNA mutation in the bones of a species of Chilean chicken that has only been found in Polynesian chickens. The discovery is significant in that chickens may have been brought to the
“Until now the evidence in support of a direct cultural connection with Polynesians has been circumstantial…Alice Storey, a doctoral student in the department of anthropology at the University of Auckland, and her colleagues suggest that Polynesian seafarers could have used the reliable trade westerlies of the southern hemisphere to carry them and their cargo of living chickens to Chile”.
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Sources- CBS News, Reuters, Belfast Telegraph
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