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“Modern man a wimp” – Anthropologist Peter McAllister

“Modern man a wimp” - Anthropologist Peter McAllister

Many primitive Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.

Some Tutsi men in Rwanda surpassed the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters throughout initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height for the development of manhood.

Ex-bodybuilder and current California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm wrestle would have been beaten by any Neanderthal woman.

These and many other eye-catching claims are fully listed in a book by Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister entitled “Manthropology” and provocatively sub-titled “The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male.”
McAllister sets out his stall in the opening sentence of the prologue.

“If you’re reading this then you — or the male you have bought it for — are the worst man in history.
“No ifs, no buts — the worst man, period…As a class we are in fact the sorriest cohort of masculine Homo sapiens to ever walk the planet.”

Investigating into a wide range of source material McAllister found facts that made him believe that modern man is inferior to his predecessors in, among other fields, the basic Olympic athletics disciplines of running and jumping.
His conclusions about the rapidity of Australian aboriginals 20,000 years ago are based on a set of footprints, conserved in a fossilized claypan lake bed, of six men running after prey.

FLEET-FOOTED ABORIGINALS

An examination of the footsteps of one of the men, named T8, shows he arrived at speeds of 37 kph on a soft, muddy lake edge. Bolt, by contrast, reached a top speed of 42 kph during his world 100 meters record of 9.69 seconds at last year’s Beijing Olympics.

In an interview in the English university town of Cambridge where he was temporarily resident, McAllister said that, with present training, spiked shoes and rubberized tracks, aboriginal hunters might have arrived at speeds of 45 kph.
“We can assume they are running close to their maximum if they are chasing an animal,” he said.
“But if they can do that speed of 37 kph on very soft ground I suspect there is a strong chance they would have outdone Usain Bolt if they had all the advantages that he does.”

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