Acted Quote by Donald Johanson

“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

The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.

— Juan Enriquez

“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

“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

“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

Because of movies we've thought of Neanderthals as being these slightly stupid, thuggish humans and they weren't. They were really well adapted to survive…

— Michaela Strachan

“Admittedly there could have been interbreeding between archaic and modern Homo sapiens, but there is no convincing evidence for this in our male and…

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“According to the fossil record, Neanderthals appeared between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago and existed until about 30,000 years ago. Throughout their entire existence…

— Svante Pääbo

Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

— Rachel Carson

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

What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals…

— Donald Johanson

“The irony is too rich not to point out. When arranging the different human races in tiers, from just below the angels to just…

— Sam Kean