Human origins may refer to:
- Ancient astronauts, a hypothesis for extraterrestrial influence on human origins
- Anthropogeny, the study of human origins
- Creation myth, a symbolic narrative of human origins
- Human evolution, the phenotypic history of the genus Homo
- Monogenism, a theory of human origins
- Polygenism, a theory of human origins
- Recent African origin of modern humans
Famous quotes containing the words human and/or origins:
“We have yet to deal successfully with American transraciality in real terms, as we have failed to redefine race in light of the modern, twenty-first century progress of human kind.”
—Virginia Hamilton (b. 1936)
“Grown onto every inch of plate, except
Where the hinges let it move, were living things,
Barnacles, mussels, water weeds—and one
Blue bit of polished glass, glued there by time:
The origins of art.”
—Howard Moss (b. 1922)