“...if you don’t believe in evolution, then I think that you should raise chickens.
Seriously,
I raised chickens in my youth, and my father continued to do so for decades. I
learned a lot about the inheritance of ancestral characteristics when talking with
chicken farmers, and a lot about the forces of natural selection watching the
roosters and hens in the yard.
Did
you know that there are hundreds of varieties of chickens in the world right
now, and that some factory farms only raise and sell first-generation hybrids?
This is done so that they can unnaturally select which of the usual breeding
characteristics are expressed in the chickens they end up with, without having
to worry about whether or not the genes combine well beyond the first generation.
You
can learn a lot about evolution from farmers. It’s one of the tools that
they’ve been using for thousands of years.”
an excerpt from:
“The Evolution of Humans and Technology,
Part 1: Humans”, chapter four of the book
“Anthropology-Based Computing: Putting
the Human in Human-ComputerInteraction”
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