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On the Long Debated Origin Story of Domestic Chickens

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Gina G. Warren Considers the History of the Backyard Bird

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On the Public Health Consequences of the Palm Oil Revolution

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In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

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