Archi

The handsome creature below - Archicebus achilles - has been very much

in the news lately. Reconstructed from a fossil find int the Chinese province of

Hubei (incidentally the original locus of Chinese civilization) he is but a few centimeters high

and would have weighed 30 grams. He is thought to be the earliest known primate.


This find confirms a new perspective on evolution: if man evolved in Africa, primates

before that evolved in Asia. Archi was an insectivore.

source: Le Monde.