Evolution Quote by Dan Simmons

“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

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first…

— Carl Sagan

“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

“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

“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

Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

— Ray Kurzweil

“The Neanderthals were a proto-species, an embryonic light that flickered in evolutionary time, but was not strong enough to stand across epochs.”

— Adam Rutherford

“Species that struggle to adapt to survive will become extinct”

— Charles Darwin

“What if the first homo sapiens had felt that way? We’d all still be neanderthals, and when the Buggers came they would have blasted…

— Orson Scott Card

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous…

— Stephen Jay Gould