Physical location

Walton Center for Planetary Health (ISTB7)
777 East University Drive, Second Floor #200L1
Tempe AZ 85287-8404
Phone 480.727.6580
Fax 480.727.6570
Email [email protected]

Mailing address

Institute of Human Origins
PO Box 878404
Tempe, AZ 85287-8404

The Institute of Human Origins communicates its research findings and significant news to the scientific and academic communities and general public through high-level scientific journals and books, mainstream media, and IHO newsletters and enews.

Our core strength lies in field and lab research on key questions and time periods in the emergence of humankind

The Institute of Human Origins is one of the world’s leading centers for research, education, and public outreach on the scientific mission to understand what it means to be human. Now in its fourth decade of research and discovery, the institute remains at the forefront of the creation of knowledge about our origins.

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