Ancestor Quote by Bob Waterston

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot…

— Bob Waterston

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

— Nicholas Wade

“In the 1970s Allan Wilson and Mary-Claire King at Berkeley correctly theorized that the evolution of genes is less important than the evolution of…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million…

— Richard Dawkins

“In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4% of our total DNA sequences with the chimpanzee.”

— Jill Bolte Taylor

In fact, humans have less variation genetically than chimpanzees.

— Alice Roberts

We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same, but with…

— Richard Dawkins

Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA, and immunological…

— Elaine Morgan

If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far…

— Jane Goodall

We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth…

— Fred Hoyle

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

— Kin Hubbard

If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical…

— Simon Conway Morris