There's so much that bonobos and chimps can teach humans
About 6 million years ago in Africa there was an ape species that would change the world. We don't know much about that animal, but we do know that one population separated from the rest and would eventually evolve into our species, Homo sapiens.
Slow lorises at high risk of illegal trade in Japan, report finds
The ongoing sale of the slow loris as an exotic pet in Japan — almost a decade after international trade of the small primate was banned — has led to a high risk of it being sold illegally, a recent survey has found. In a ...
An experimental Canadian-made Ebola vaccine that has shown promise in tests on primates is beginning clinical trials on humans in the U.S. The vaccine will be tested on healthy individuals Monday to see how well it works, whether there are side effects and what the ...
In Japan, futures trading for rice started in 1730 at Dojima, Osaka, with the Tokugawa shogunate's approval. Such trading ended in 1939 as the government's wartime control of the economy was strengthened. On Aug. 8, futures trading for rice resumed in Tokyo and Osaka ...
