Human origins

Human origins may refer to:

• Human evolution, evolutionary process leading to anatomically modern humans
• Monogenism, a theory of human origins positing a common descent for all humans, debated in the 19th-century, gave way to
• Recent African origin of modern humans, the widely accepted theory of humans evolving in Africa then radiating globally
• Polygenism, an obsolete theory of human origin
• Multiregional origin of modern humans, a theory of humans evolving in multiple different places

See also

• Human evolution (disambiguation)
• Creation myth, a mythological narrative of human origins