Amount Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

I've done DNA tests and I've got two per cent Neanderthal DNA - most people have. If your ancestry is northern hemisphere, it's likely…

— Michaela Strachan

“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

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

— Juan Enriquez

“In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions within the…

— American Anthropological Association

“It is a few selected genes, not the many neutral ones, that may account for the differences between continental races. Substantial evidence for this…

— Nicholas Wade

“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

“Using a 500,000 snip chip, researchers at Stanford University have found a strong correspondence between the genetics and geographical origins of Europeans. In fact,…

— Nicholas Wade

Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived mainly in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else.

— Norman Davies

“Eighty-five percent of human variation, according to the genetic differences in blood groups, was seen in the same racial groups. Of the remaining 15…

— Adam Rutherford