“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
“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
“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
The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another. — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
The Neanderthals in Texas have one thing that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi don't have, and that's called common sense. — Ronny Jackson 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
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
“I suggest that the type of consciousness – not merely the degree of intelligence – that Neanderthals possessed was different in important… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
Neanderthals might think differently than we do. We know that they had a larger cranial size. They could even be more intelligent… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
“We’ve been stuck in one species since our Cro-Magnon ancestors helped to wipe out the smarter Neanderthals,” she said. “Now it’s our… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“DNA evidence suggests that Neanderthals carried a gene known as DRD4-7R as long as forty thousand years ago. DRD4-7R is responsible for… — Adam Alter Copy Share Image
In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement… — Svante Paabo Copy Share Image
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section,… — Jim Butcher 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
“The irony is too rich not to point out. When arranging the different human races in tiers, from just below the angels… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“He's a Nethanderal! Behold the might of my caveman!" Mrs. Isaacs looked up at me, "I believe they're called 'Neanderthals', Hon." I… — Kenzie Western Copy Share Image
I BET WHEN NEANDERTHAL KIDS would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick heavy brows." Then… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The definition of who's literate and who's not keeps changing. So, in Neanderthal times, if you painted on a cave wall, that… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying… — Elizabeth Kolbert 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
“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
What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I… — Donald Johanson 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
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
“Despite being depicted in innumerable cartoons as apelike brutes living in caves, Neanderthals had brains slightly larger than our own. They were… — Jared Diamond 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
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
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
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
“And that would make you – (Geary) A Cro-Mag, so yeah, when you call me a barbaric caveman, I am. Literally. Hell,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
