“fact, however, the lesson is just the opposite. The story demonstrates that by humanising animals we usually underestimate animal cognition and ignore… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens is a social being, and our well-being depends to a large extent on the quality and depth of our social… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
“It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is… — Gideon Rachman Copy Share Image
“Admittedly there could have been interbreeding between archaic and modern Homo sapiens, but there is no convincing evidence for this in our… — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“It does not take much to provide the objective biological needs of Homo sapiens. After those needs are met, more money can… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed.… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“Technically, our name, to those who speak science, is Homo sapiens— wise person. But we have been described in many other ways.… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We,… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
“The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“It’s a common fallacy to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Evolutionary scholars have long stressed the adaptive role of aggressive and antisocial behavior as a high-risk strategy for social and mating competition.… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“To avoid a misconception, it must be clarified that a world of steadily increasing wealth by no means ends human competition, and… — Azar Gat Copy Share Image
“Those Who From Heaven To Earth Came". They landed on Earth, colonized it, mining the Earth for gold and other minerals, establishing… — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
“scenarios. But there are certainly good reasons to believe that if Homo sapiens had never gone Down Under, it would still be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
“Whereas the Agricultural Revolution gave rise to theist religions, the Scientific Revolution gave birth to humanist religions, in which humans replaced gods.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo… — Tim Federle Copy Share Image
The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“How did Homo sapiens manage to cross this critical threshold, eventually founding cities comprising tens of thousands of inhabitants and empires ruling… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Yet why should individuals care about this evolutionary calculus? Why would any sane person lower his or her standard of living just… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“I'm an expert in homo sapiens behavior. They can rationalize anything. Take war. They'll bankrupt their economies, sacrifie the best of their… — Mario Acevedo Copy Share Image
