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:
“... one thing that distinguishes a frontier is the precarious nature of the human hold on it.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)