Would Zola have been Interested?

As reported recently in Nature and other sources, Rakus, a Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is the first wild animal to be documented using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.But, according to Nature, Adrienne Mayor wasn’t surprised to hear the news. “As a historian of ancient science who investigates what Greeks and Romans knew about plants and…… Continue reading Would Zola have been Interested?