Quote by Daniel C. Dennett

Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

— Jared Diamond

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is…

— Richard Dawkins

Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have…

— Richard Dawkins

I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

— Garth Stein

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

“between chimpanzee and Homo sapiens.”

— Dan Brown

In fact, humans have less variation genetically than chimpanzees.

— Alice Roberts

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

— Kin Hubbard

As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to…

— Francis Collins

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic…

— Colin Camerer

Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us… Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson