Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own…

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

— Jodi Picoult

“It turns out that, far from the world being a common genetic melting pot with massive to-and-fro prehistoric movements and mixings, the majority of…

— Stephen Oppenheimer

I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship's keel is off,…

— Tom Hiddleston

“Look well at this, and speak no towering word             yourself against the gods, nor walk too grandly             because your hand is weightier…

— Sophocles

It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social…

— Peter Singer

You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home…

— Michael Harner

I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been…

— Donald Johanson

“We know very well that we have ancestors. But our ancestors are not only human. We have animal ancestors; we have plant ancestors; and…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

— Anonymous

Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or…

— Donald Johanson

“When our earliest human ancestors left the trees and moved to the open grasslands of the savanna, they adopted an upright stance. Possessing already…

— Robert Greene

Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps…

— Ziya Tong

“It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grasslands of East Africa some six…

— Robert Greene

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas…

— Anonymous