Avoidance Quote by George M. Church

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

“The Neanderthals lived in Europe for more than a hundred thousand years and during that period they had no more impact on their surroundings…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Without an ability to compose fiction, Neanderthals were unable to cooperate effectively in large numbers, nor could they adapt their social behaviour to rapidly…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“the average Neanderthal cranial capacity was greater than that of modern humans.”

— Juan Luis Arsuaga

“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

“He's a Nethanderal! Behold the might of my caveman!" Mrs. Isaacs looked up at me, "I believe they're called 'Neanderthals', Hon." I looked down…

— Kenzie Western

“It may well be that when Sapiens encountered Neanderthals, the result was the first and most significant ethnic-cleansing campaign in history.”

— 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

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

“As neanderthals, writing on the caves, I write as a way to behave”

— J. Michael Wahlgren

“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

“Despite being depicted in innumerable cartoons as apelike brutes living in caves, Neanderthals had brains slightly larger than our own. They were also the…

— Jared Diamond