Ancestor Quote by Havelock Ellis

When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people…

— John Burroughs

For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens, our species -…

— Daniel Dennett

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from…

— George Orwell

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

— Daniel Dennett

A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel…

— Thomas Huxley

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an…

— Peter Singer

“When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he exposed the world to a momentous discovery . For the first time…

— Jeff Schweitzer

“[ Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's…

— Thomas Huxley

There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts. That idea…

— Eric Kandel

People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended…

— Stephen Fry

I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a…

— Daniel Dennett

We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public…

— Kenneth R. Miller