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 Chickens prove key to tracing migration across Pacific Sydney Morning Herald The findings allow scientists to reconstruct the migratory patterns of their human carriers throughout Island South-East Asia, Micronesia and Polynesia more than 3000 years ago. "The colonisation of the remote Pacific was one of the last great human … DNA trail leads to chicken's first coop Chickens tell tale of human migration across Pacific Chicken DNA 'suggests Columbus was first'  | 
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