Ancestor Quote by Christopher McDougall

“Each of us is the product of history. Our lives today are evidence that our ancestors survived unbelievable odds stretching back to prehistory. The…

— Laura Wheldon

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and…

— Pete du Pont

“At first she tried to account for it by saying that she came of an ancient and civilized race, whereas these gypsies were an…

— Virginia Woolf

Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what…

— Jacob Bronowski

Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal…

— Jared Diamond

If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion.…

— E. O. Wilson

I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are…

— Paul McCartney

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation…

— Elon Musk

It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it is part…

— Patricia Churchland

So now we know why some mammals eat their children...

— Anonymous

No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous;…

— Vladimir Nabokov

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

— Jonathan Haidt