In appreciation of the irony: “Humankind's common ancestor with other mammals may have been a roughly rat-size animal that weighed no more than a half a pound,

In appreciation of the irony: “Humankind's common ancestor with other mammals may have been a roughly rat-size animal that weighed no more than a half a pound, had a long furry tail and lived on insects.” Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/science/common-ancestor-of-mammals-plucked-from-obscurity.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/science/common-ancestor-o...