Change Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

“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

“It seems that after the African migration, small numbers of Homo sapiens were better adapted to manage these shifts in climate than earlier versions…

— Andrew Marr

Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

— Rachel Carson

“The Neanderthals were a proto-species, an embryonic light that flickered in evolutionary time, but was not strong enough to stand across epochs.”

— Adam Rutherford

What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals…

— Donald Johanson

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

The climate has always changed - after all, we've had numerous ice ages without human influence - but human activity has undoubtedly exacerbated Earth's…

— Christine Todd Whitman

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

“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

The climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there have been…

— Sylvia Earle

“The last 10,000 to 20,000 years have witnessed a period of dramatic growth in human civilization. Indeed, our growth during this time is unique…

— Heidi Cullen

Climate has always changed. It always has and always will. Sea level has always changed. Ice sheets come and go. Life always changes. Extinctions…

— Ian Plimer