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Edinburgh, October 15 : A leading anthropologist has suggested that
ancient aboriginals in Australia would have outrun Usain Bolt, the fastest
man alive, while a Neanderthal woman would have crushed Arnold
Schwarzenegger in arm-wrestling.
According to a report in The Scotsman, Peter McAllister, the author of
"Manthropology: the Science of Inadequate Modern Man", claims men today
are the weakest in history and would have been trumped in feats of
strength or speed by our ancient ancestors.
McAllister finds evidence he believes proves modern man is inferior to his
predecessors in, among other fields, the basic Olympic athletics
disciplines of running and jumping.
His conclusions about the speed of Australian aboriginals 20,000 years ago
are based on a set of footprints, preserved in a fossilised claypan lake
bed, of six men chasing prey.
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