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:
““More human than human” is our motto.”
—David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Tyrell (Joe Turkel)
“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)