>Can you enlighten me and give me a quick run down on his >central thesis
and why it is so wrong.

that paleo man ate a relatively low-fat diet.  Cordain is one of the 'fake
opposition' an establishment low fat man trying to derail the genuine low
carb movement.

I personally wrote to Cordain to ask him how he concluded Australian
aborigines ate a low fat diet. he confirmed my suspicion that he had done no
studies at all in the area and had relied on two papers, one of which was a
short experiment conducted in 1965, and another of which was a paper put out
by another establishment gnome [brand-miller] who merely assumes that
aborigines ate a diet equally weighted between fats and carbs.  life's easy
if you assume what you want to prove..

andrew