Researchers suggest broiler chicken is the hallmark of the Anthropocene
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - 08:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team of researchers from several institutions in the U.K. and one in South Africa has come to the conclusion that the broiler chicken offers perhaps the most striking evidence of the rise of the Anthropocene. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group outlines their reasons for choosing the chicken as a signal of human biosphere reconfiguration.