Ancestors Quote by Donald Johanson

“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in…

— Norman F. Cantor

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this…

— Donald Johanson

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

— Sugata Mitra

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology…

— Donald Johanson

The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still…

— Seneca the Younger

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

— Pierre Loti

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.

— Howard Carter

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion…

— Robert Jastrow

“The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.”

— Elaine Morgan

In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints…

— John Reader

Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending…

— John M. Tyler

“As a known entity, DNA has been around longer than you might think. It was discovered as far back as 1869 by Johann Friedrich…

— Bill Bryson