Critical Reasoning (CR) | ­Journalist: For a long time there was widespread agreement among

­Journalist: For a long time there was widespread agreement among scholars that chickens were not in the Americas until the Spaniards arrived there in the sixteenth century. Recently, however, scientists analyzed the DNA of a chicken bone recovered from an archaeological site in South America. They found that its DNA sequence was identical to chicken remains recovered from archaeological sites on the Polynesian islands of Tong and American Samoa. The South American chicken bone was dated to a period between AD 1321 and 1407, a period during which the easternmost islands of Polynesia were being colonized before Europeans arrived.

Which of the following is most strongly supported by the information provided by thejournalist?

A. Chickens were first domesticated somewhere in the region ofPolynesia.
B. People may have traveled between the Polynesian islands and South America before Spaniards came to SouthAmerica.
[color=#444444] C. Chickens spread from the Americas to Europe,
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Statistics : Posted by JJ.jj • on 12 Mar 2024, 11:51 • Replies 0 • Views 78

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