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Big Bird

22 Nov 2012

From Wired Science which notes why man has succeeded in breeding big turkeys when evolution failed–it’s not as complicated as you might think: …the key technical advance was artificial insemination, which came into widespread use in the 1960s, right around the time that turkey size starts to skyrocket. The reason is that turkeys over 30 [...]
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