Founded | 1981[1] |
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Founder | Donald Johanson[2] |
Type | Non-profit |
Focus | Multiregional origin of modern humans, Human Evolution |
Headquarters | Tempe, Arizona |
Origins | Berkeley, California |
Key people | Yohannes Haile-Selassie (Director) Curtis Marean (Associate Director) David Koch[3] (Executive Board) Ian Tattersall (Executive Board) |
Website | iho |
The Institute of Human Origins (IHO) is a non-profit, multidisciplinary research organization dedicated to the recovery and analysis of the fossil evidence for human evolution. It was founded by the team of paleoanthropologists that discovered Lucy, and became affiliated with Arizona State University in 1997.[4] In 2014, IHO received the single largest grant dedicated to the research of human origins.[5][6]