Anthropologists Quote by Huston Smith

“As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: “We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes…

— Ray Kurzweil

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the…

— Carl Sagan

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human…

— Carl Jung

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the…

— Jacob M. Appel

“Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that Darwin himself,…

— Henry Fairfield Osborn

Much of what we think of as human evolved long after the use of tools. It is probably more correct to think of much…

— Anonymous

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

— Paul Watson

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

Darwin's Theory of Earth's Evolution is not true since Human Race is all over universe and every matured earth gives birth to nascent earth…

— Ashwani Kumar Ojha

None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate…

— Dian Fossey

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is…

— Richard Dawkins

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

— H L Mencken