Apes Quote by Jane Goodall

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have…

— Carl Sagan

Even with years of historical research, the more humans try to define themself, the more there end up getting drown in their own confussion.…

— Igwe Daniel Kelechi

All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one…

— Harry Mulisch

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

What makes humans unique is that evolution gave us the most incredible and sophisticated vision system, motor system, and language system, and they all…

— Fei-Fei Li

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

— Patricia Churchland

“the two evolutionary lines, ours and the Neanderthals’, both developed such large brains, and perhaps other characteristics in common, because we exchanged genes.”

— Juan Luis Arsuaga

Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“What then drove forward the evolution of the massive human brain during those 2 million years? Frankly, we don’t know. Another singular human trait…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest.…

— Donald Johanson

“Humans first evolved in East Africa about 2.5 million years ago from an earlier genus of apes called Australopithecus, which means ‘Southern Ape’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari