Anthropology Quote by Bill Gaede

“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

“Geneticists are a group of mathematicians who have taken over the Neanderthal Paleontology Guild. They call the shots now.”

— Bill Gaede

“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

“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

“DNA evidence suggests that Neanderthals carried a gene known as DRD4-7R as long as forty thousand years ago. DRD4-7R is responsible for a constellation…

— Adam Alter

“recent discoveries that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional severely undercut the social scientists’ official view of the world because they establish…

— Nicholas Wade

“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

“Among the genetic gifts the Neanderthals passed on to us, it seems, is red hair, bless them.”

— Bill Bryson

“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

“New analyses of the human genome establish that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional.”

— Nicholas Wade

We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.

— Kari Stefansson

“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