Today’s red jungle fowl — the wild forebears of the domesticated chicken — are becoming more chickenlike. New research suggests that a large proportion of the wild fowl’s DNA has been inherited from ...

Hundreds of genetic mutations accumulated over thousands of years have transformed the red jungle fowl of South Asia into the domesticated chickens that are a fixture on farms -- and dining tables -- ...

IN the letter in your last issue (p. 295), in which Mr. Forbes endeavours to controvert my statement with reference to the crowing of jungle fowl, his account is extremely vague and indefinite. He ...