Chicken Evolution and Broiler Chicken as A Future Index Fossil

[Oxytropidoceras]

The Evolution of the Chicken. 

Mark Berres. 2018.02.28

Wednesday Nite @ The Lab

Published on Mar 1, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXL2doMXWfg

 

A related paper is:

 

Bennett, C.E., Thomas, R., Williams, M., Zalasiewicz, 

J., Edgeworth, M., Miller, H., Coles, B., Foster, A., 

Burton, E.J. and Marume, U., 2018. The broiler 

chicken as a signal of a human reconfigured 

biosphere. Royal Society open science, 5(12), p.180325.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.180325

 

Some news article are:

 

It Could Be the Age of the Chicken, Geologically

With 65 billion chickens consumed each year, the 

signature fossil of the modern epoch may be the 

leftovers. James Gorman, New York Times,

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/science/chicken-anthropocene-archaeology.html

 

Are we living in the ‘age of the chicken’? Fossil 

record of man's time on Earth will be dominated 

by the bones of factory farmed hens

Phoebe Weston Daily Mail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6487397/Age-chicken-Anthropocene-fossil-record-dominated-bones-factory-farmed-hens.html

 

How the domestic chicken rose to define the 

Anthropocene. Over the past 70 years, the bird has 

become a global staple, and could be the key fossil 

evidence for human-influenced epoch

Damian Carrington, The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/31/domestic-chicken-anthropocene-humanity-influenced-epoch

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-anthropocene-epoch-experts-urge-geological-congress-human-impact-earth

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Bok.