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:
“... there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his passions.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: “Look what I killed. Aren’t I the best?””
—Katharine Hamnett (b. 1948)