Thousand years Quote by Adam Alter

“The emerging and vital truth isn’t who is more Neanderthal than whom. It’s that all peoples, everywhere, enjoyed archaic human lovers whenever they could.…

— Sam Kean

“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of geneticists that…

— Bill Gaede

“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 modern humans…

— Bill Nye

Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

— Rachel Carson

“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.”

— Bill Gaede

“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 entire existence…

— Svante Pääbo

“The Neanderthals were a proto-species, an embryonic light that flickered in evolutionary time, but was not strong enough to stand across epochs.”

— Adam Rutherford

“Modern humans arrived in Europe around forty thousand years ago, and again and again, the archaeological record shows, as soon as they made their…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge that…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“the two evolutionary lines, ours and the Neanderthals’, both developed such large brains, and perhaps other characteristics in common, because we exchanged genes.”

— Juan Luis Arsuaga

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

It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is…

— Elizabeth Kolbert