Hominids Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.
— Ian Tattersall
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Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of…
— William Irwin Thompson
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I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the…
— Juan Enriquez
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To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
— Richard Leakey
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Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother was German and…
— Michael Shermer
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It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that…
— Jane Goodall
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More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago…
— Richard Dawkins
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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.
— Noam Chomsky
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What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids…
— Louise Leakey
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Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it.
— Ridley Scott
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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was…
— Robert Anton Wilson
Who Wrote These Hominids Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Hominids Quotes as follows: