need update to st source in lede that src now says multiregional took away rao's formerly mainstream status in the book's edition also reasons to support a long ignored proposal to unlock the article a new edition of the essence of anthropology by mcbride b haviland we prins hel walrath d is available dated this article is still citing the edition of the same book note that the new edition says on pg until the recent african origins hypothesis was the mainstream position but when researchers from the max planck institute released a study comparing the neanderthal genome the genetic evidence shifted to supporting the multiregional hypothesis this article's statement of rao being the most widely accepted model was relying on the outdated edition of this book having said on pg of the edition that rao is the mainstream position the sentence involving what is mainstream was revised in the edition to say that the evidence now supports the multiregional hypothesis this article's first sentence should therefore read edits are in italics dubbed the out of africa theory was the most widely accepted model describing the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans until the multiregional origin of modern humans gained favour also who has kept the article locked for years and what is their reason for why it is still locked are the sources for each of these competing hypotheses so dubious and disputed and did the pro rao vandal himself lock this article and then quit wp or has had his account suspended or what why else is there no response to complaints about this article being locked for such a long term but that the one who locked it has long ignored this article and cannot be trusted to lock articles if he is even still a wp member per the fact based accusations that were raised in the above topics in this talk page it should be unlocked in order to add the discoveries i'd say recent discoveries except that isn't recent which again exhibits that nobody holding a wp account is responsible enough to be trusted with the locking of this article especially not an anthropologist or even anthro student because if this article had even one expert editor he should recognise immediately that the above edit requests are from veracious sources and are the reasons for the requests are explained explicitly enough that anyone worth their salt should comprehend what's being requested others posing this question about why this article is locked have been unanswered for roughly a year so who locked this article then ignored this badly neglected scientifically outdated article for so long and ironically the people who want it unlocked are desiring to update this article with recent facts i e discoveries that refute rao so obviously none of us are the pro rao vandal but this article was locked for years literally even before that complaint of a list of edits by a pro rao vandal was raised on the talk page again raising my question did the pro rao vandal make his edits to corrupt the veracity of this article and then skip town so to speak