Devolution

Now, there is much discontent and even a great deal of religious hysteria in some parts of the world concerning the writings of one Charles Darwin. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, religious nut jobs the world over have lived and died to claim that a magician in the sky is the sole reason for our existence. There seems to be something particularly distasteful for inbred rednecks about being related to monkeys, rather than their own sister/mother.

But after millions of years of us evolving from our hairy, dextrously challenged cousins, one Japanese man has decided that our evolutionary progress if overrated.

Kenichi Ito, 30, has become the fastest man on all fours, "running" the 100m in 17.47 seconds.

Mr Ito has trained every day for nine years to achieve the new record, and he has claimed that one day, he is "certain that all sprinters will be running on all fours".

And now he has set his sights on Usain Bolt's 100m record.

Ito is an ambitious man. Even if he does want to be a monkey.