Age Quote by Donald Johanson

“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

A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at…

— Francisco J. Ayala

I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to…

— Svante Paabo

“Modern humans arrived in Europe around forty thousand years ago, and again and again, the archaeological record shows, as soon as they made their…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“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

“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 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

In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement crowd not…

— Svante Paabo

Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

— Rachel Carson

“It’s a common fallacy to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting the Neanderthals,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“In the penultimate stages of writing this book, the date of the great exodus from Africa may have shifted more than 10,000 years earlier…

— Adam Rutherford