Primate Quotes

33 quotes by 26 authors

If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it. — Mike Huckabee
Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original… — Dave Barry
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the… — Robert Anton Wilson
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before… — Christiaan Barnard
Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of… — E. O. Wilson
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. â€¦ Our… — Murray Bookchin
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities… — Jane Goodall
Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently… — Michael Bywater
[A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses — Tipu Aziz
God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate. — Steve Fowler
It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species… — Desmond Morris
I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around.… — Frans de Waal
When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more altruistic… — Frans de Waal
As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order… — Bob Sutton
Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than… — Desmond Morris
First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated. — Russell Banks
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an… — Ambrose Bierce
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and… — Richard Harris Barham
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig… — Steven Pinker
As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be… — Francis Collins

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