Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by…

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping…

— E. M. Forster

Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal…

— H. L. Mencken

“I suggest that the type of consciousness – not merely the degree of intelligence – that Neanderthals possessed was different in important respects from…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“Whereas the food debris of the Neanderthals shows a wide variety of animal bones, suggesting that they took whatever they could find, archaeological remnants…

— Bill Bryson

Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's a very…

— Adam Levine

Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal…

— Werner Herzog

The definition of who's literate and who's not keeps changing. So, in Neanderthal times, if you painted on a cave wall, that was enough…

— Juan Enriquez

Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I BET WHEN NEANDERTHAL KIDS would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick heavy brows." Then they would…

— Jack Handey

Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no…

— Dean Koontz

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge that…

— Robert M. Pirsig

It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“He's a Nethanderal! Behold the might of my caveman!" Mrs. Isaacs looked up at me, "I believe they're called 'Neanderthals', Hon." I looked down…

— Kenzie Western

“My uncle is a phrenologist and says that the shape of his skull is typical of a liar.”

— Natasha Pulley