I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand… — Bob Waterston 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
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
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
The loss of body hair is interesting to anthropologists, because it is a feature that distinguishes us from our nearest living relatives,… — Mark Stoneking 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
If you take 10,000 chimpanzees and cram them together into Wembley Stadium or the Houses of Parliament, you will get chaos. But… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
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
“There are some scientists who frown upon such practices, believing that nature should run its course,” Jane wrote in an early chapter… — Sy Montgomery 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
“What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea… — Konrad Lorenz 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
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
I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that… — Chris Hardwick 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
“Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the acestor of all chimpanzees, the other is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Even though I knew she never belonged to me, my heart didn't agree. The old man and the boy crouched as still… — Gail Gillespie-Fox Copy Share Image
An evolutionary biologist and a fundamentalist may see the same chimpanzee sitting in a cage, but in another important way, they do… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test:… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
We now know that the structure of the DNA in humans and chimpanzees differs by only just over one percent. You could… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals,… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
