Hundreds of genetic mutations accumulated over thousands of years have transformed the red jungle fowl of South Asia into the domesticated chickens that are a fixture on farms -- and dining tables ...

Up to half of modern jungle fowl genes have been inherited from domesticated chickens. ... many of the roughly 100-year-old jungle fowl had a chicken-ancestry share in the range of a few percent.

(Pictured: A red jungle fowl) Subramanya C K via Wikimedia Commons under CC By SA 3.0 Scientists have debated where domestic chickens originated from for decades.

Chickens long ago were seen as exotic, fascinating birds. These descendants of exotic Asian jungle fowl were once revered for their ferocity and intelligence. But then, we humans began eating them ...

Those brought to Hawaii were actually red jungle fowl, the wild ancestor of the modern chicken. Over the years, those birds mixed with domestic chickens brought later by European colonists and others.

Charles Darwin maintained that the domesticated chicken descended from the red jungle fowl, but new research now shows that the wild origins of the chicken are more complicated. The researchers ...

LOS ANGELES - Genetic mutations accumulated over thousands of years have transformed the red jungle fowl of South Asia into the domesticated chickens that are a fixture on farms - ...

The gray jungle fowl was probably crossed with an early form of the domesticated chicken, Eriksson's team figures. The genes for yellow skin are spread among billions of domesticated chickens ...