Homo is the successor of Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde, also founded and edited by Eickstedt.

In 1935, Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt started a German journal Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde[2] (lit.

[2] After the World War II, in 1949,[2] Eickstedt established a new journal Homo, Internationale Zeitschrift für die vergleichende Forschung am Menschen[1] as the successor of the Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde.

[2] The title Homo (the name of the human genus) was chosen to avoid terms suspicious of racism.

Homo was published by Elsevier up to and including Volume 69 (2018) on behalf of the Australasian Society for Human Biology, of which it is the official journal.