Human Origins

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:

    Women—one half the human race at least—care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
    Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
    Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)