Darwin Was Wrong About The Origins Of Chickens, Study Finds

A novel genetic study has revealed why chickens have yellow legs, demonstrating that though Charles Darwin was right about many things, his view on the origins of the chicken was not entirely correct. The study, published February 29 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, reveals the genetic basis for the appearance of yellow skin in billions of chickens raised worldwide.Yellow-skinned chickens have a different version of a gene than their white-skinned cousins.

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Filed under: Biology on March 3rd, 2008