Friday, 17 December 2010
Author and archaeologist Peter McAllister will examine the pressing modern problem of "Why are males today such losers?" in a public lecture in January at The University of Western Australia.
An adjunct lecturer in UWA's Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences, Mr McAllister last year published Manthropology: The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male.
In this quirky, scientific lecture he draws on archaeology, anthropology and evolutionary psychology to confirm the awful truth: every man in history, back to the dawn of the species, did everything better, faster, stronger and smarter than any man today.
"Deadbeat dads, two-bit terrorists, mediocre metrosexuals, sissy-boy strongmen - Mr McAllister lays them all ruthlessly bare as he debunks every masculine modern-day claim to fame, even proving by biomechanical analysis that a Neanderthal woman would beat Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm-wrestling match."
For more information, contact UWA Extension on 6488 2433
WHAT: Manthropology lecture
WHEN: 7.00pm - 8.30pm, Thursday, January 20, 2011
WHERE: Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, The University of Western Australia, Crawley (nearest entrance Hackett Entrance 1)
Media references
Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs) (+61 8) 6488 5563 / (+61 4) 32 637 716
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