Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side. — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
“For millions of years we were enhanced chimpanzees. In the future, we may become oversized ants.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Chimps don't have language. Humans actively instruct others about how things should be done. Chimpanzees probably pick up cultural traditions by observation. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“It is believed that 6 million years ago, a female ape gave birth to two daughters – one became the ancestor of… — Read trepreneur Copy Share Image
If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
With regard to the alternatives, we already have them. The cellular and genetic lines of research in humans are the most promising.… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
“I guess you could say I’ve got a monkey on my back. A monkey named Darwin.” He shrugged off the trench coat… — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low Copy Share Image
Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lucy preferred gin and tonics during the summer and switched over to whiskey sours in the winter. At dinner, a sit-down affair… — Elizabeth Hess Copy Share Image
What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“[Professor Kinnerton] Has the fact that we have about 97 percent of our DNA in common with chimpanzees escaped you? How can… — Peter Kazmaier Copy Share Image
“The point of making children sleep alone, according to Western psychologists, is to make them “self-soothing,” but that clearly runs contrary to… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life. — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one — Candice Bergen Copy Share Image
Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
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