Institute of Human Origins

Human Mind, Getty Images

Health and medicine

What makes human culture unique?

chimpanzee hunting monkeys in a tree

Science and technology

Communication by chimpanzees improves cooperative hunting success

July 29, 2022

Illustration of ancestral pandas eating bamboo.

Science and technology

Giant pandas show an evolutionary turn of the wrist

June 30, 2022

bonobo group

Science and technology

Bonobo behavior hints at model for evolution of human peacemaking

June 21, 2022

The late ASU Professor Bill Kimbel outdoors in a desert setting.

Science and technology

A tribute to ASU paleoanthropologist William H. Kimbel

May 06, 2022

Joan Silk

Science and technology

ASU Regents Professor Joan Silk among new class of National Academy of Sciences members

May 06, 2022

ASU researcher Sebastían Ramírez Amaya smiling and gazing upward in a forest setting.

Arts, humanities and education

ASU school mourns death of promising young scholar

May 05, 2022

ASU Regents Professor Anne Stone in a white coat in a lab.

Science and technology

Regents Professor Anne Stone receives 2022 Guggenheim Fellow award

April 26, 2022

A woman uses an oversize pair of scissors to cut a ribbon at a ceremony

University news

Newly dedicated Roskind Great Hall honors donors’ ongoing commitment

April 21, 2022

Rob and Melani Walton walk the exterior corridors of the Rob & Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health

Environment and sustainability

New ASU research building named in honor of sustainability donors

April 19, 2022

A courtyard of a building is lit by the early morning sun.

Environment and sustainability

ISTB7: A building bridging our ancient past to our thriving future

March 10, 2022