Institute of Human Origins

Computer rendering of a spacecraft flying through outer space

Science and technology

What do a spacecraft, a skeleton and an asteroid have in common? This ASU professor

Inconvenient Truths: From Love to Extinction

Science and technology

Extinctions past and present, fate of humanity discussed at ASU Origins forum

October 26, 2016

Rabbs fringe-limbed tree frog

Environment and sustainability

Extinction and other inconvenient truths

October 14, 2016

Mammal groups

Environment and sustainability

ASU researchers: Past climate key to mammal communities today

October 05, 2016

Skeleton of the hominid Lucy

ASU experts dispute study that says Lucy fell from tree

August 29, 2016

Dr. Anne Stone

Science and technology

Discovery is in her genes: ASU anthropologist elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 04, 2016

human avatars trying to get along.

Arts, humanities and education

The pitfalls of knowing more

March 02, 2016

Palo Verde Blooms

Arts, humanities and education

One rule to grow them all: Using 'baby' teeth to predict hominin tooth size

February 24, 2016

Ian Gilby

Science and technology

Chaos or collaboration?

October 28, 2015

Stone axe/hammer from Slovenia

Arts, humanities and education

Being human: ASU study looks at how we began to make it

September 24, 2015

ASU graduate student Joel Bray observes chimpanzees in Tanzania.

Local, national and global affairs

Chimp field research unglamorous but worth it for grad student

September 08, 2015