Manthropology is a quirky, scientific look at a pressing modern problem—why are males today so pathetic? Drawing from archaeology, anthropology and evolutionary psychology, the author (a qualified palaeoanthropologist) confirms 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.

Highlights include: a biomechanical analysis proving a Neanderthal woman would have beaten Arnold Schwarzenegger in an armwrestle; a philological investigation of why Fifty Cent would bomb in a battle-rap with the poet Homer; and a comparison of injury rates between today’s Mixed Martial Arts and ancient Greek Pankration. Every modern claim to masculine fame is debunked, from terrorism (why wouldn’t Osama Bin Laden have made Captain in Genghis Khan’s army?) to metrosexuality (why would David Beckham come last in a Wodaabe tribesmens’ beauty pageant?). Even the modern male’s bragging rights about parenting are shown up as fraud — Congo Aka Pygmy men carry their sons and daughters for 47% of their waking day, and some Pygmy dads even develop breasts to nurse them. Now that’s commitment…

Deadbeat dads, two-bit terrorists, mediocre metrosexuals, sissy-boy strongmen — watch as the author lays them all ruthlessly bare using the science of MANTHROPOLOGY.