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ARTIFICIAL incubation, like many another practice supposed to be peculiar to modern civilisation, is but a revival from very ancient times. Diodorus, an author who wrote about forty years before the commencement of the Christian era, tells how the Egyptians of his time, with their own hands, bring eggs to maturity, and how the young chickens thus produced are not inferior in any way to those hatched by the usual means.
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BAYLEE, J. Incubation among the Egyptians. Nature 52, 414 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052414a0
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