“Among the genetic gifts the Neanderthals passed on to us, it seems, is red hair, bless them.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Anyone who asks if graffiti is really art should be cast out into a field, because they're Neanderthals. — Goldie Copy Share Image
“As neanderthals, writing on the caves, I write as a way to behave” — J. Michael Wahlgren Copy Share Image
The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance. — George M. Church Copy Share Image
“By shortening the intestines and decreasing their energy consumption, cooking inadvertently opened the way to the jumbo brains of Neanderthals and Sapiens.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“According to the fossil record, Neanderthals appeared between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago and existed until about 30,000 years ago. Throughout their… — Svante Pääbo Copy Share Image
Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
I've talked to biblical cats, and Neanderthals who been here since day one. No one here has even seen the Big Boss.… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Because of movies we've thought of Neanderthals as being these slightly stupid, thuggish humans and they weren't. They were really well adapted… — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I think you're only post-racial when you stop asking if you're post-racial. When the Neanderthals finally stopped asking themselves if they were… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, and lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for… — Svante Paabo Copy Share Image
There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
What you want is a comfortable environment that you feel you can invent in. Because film is such a lumbering, technical, huge,… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“What if the first homo sapiens had felt that way? We’d all still be neanderthals, and when the Buggers came they would… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The Neanderthals lived in Europe for more than a hundred thousand years and during that period they had no more impact on… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
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… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“crunching. The amount of introgression from Neanderthals is proportionally lower on the modern X than on the rest of the chromosomes. X… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“You’ve probably heard a good deal about Neanderthal [Nee-AND-er-tall] people or almost-people. Sometime around 500,000 years ago, the ancestors of Neanderthals and… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“In fact, in the first recorded encounter between Sapiens and Neanderthals, the Neanderthals won.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“Without an ability to compose fiction, Neanderthals were unable to cooperate effectively in large numbers, nor could they adapt their social behaviour… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“It may well be that when Sapiens encountered Neanderthals, the result was the first and most significant ethnic-cleansing campaign in history.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes.… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
“What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image