Talk:Richard Klein (paleoanthropologist)

"advanced" behavior in non Homo sapiens

[WP: BLP deletion] He [Klein] systematically denies any evidence of "advanced" behavior in non Homo sapiens. For example, the remains of a Homo habilis (most likely species) structure, he takes to be boulders around a tree, when it doesn't look anything like boulder-tree patterns. The proposition that modern behavior arose overnight as some kind of re-wiring of the brain is dubious, to me at least. Also, he is a proponent of the ice-free corridor hypothesis, which is practically disproven. [WP: BLP deletion here]—Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.48.42.244 (talk) 12:30, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

why no new article included?

Hello， anybody read richard's new article published in 2019?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/evan.21788

can we add his new article?

Klein: "There is also nothing to suggest the degree of population continuity within African regions that Wolpoff observed in different Eurasian regions. In southern Africa, where archeological observations are particularly dense, they suggest regional discontinuity." Klein: "The expanded sample (of Afr fossils) underscores the likelihood that H. sapiens originated in Africa, but even that might be contested if genetics did not lead to the same conclusion." If no DNA, Out of Africa model cannot stand based on fossils.

I would ask for updating of such points based on his new view.

" His primary thesis is that modern humans evolved in East Africa, perhaps 100,000 years ago and, starting 50,000 years ago, began spreading throughout the non-African world, replacing archaic human populations over time" Evolul (talk) 18:30, 24 September 2023 (UTC)