Quote by Jared Diamond

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

— Juan Luis Arsuaga

“I suggest that the type of consciousness – not merely the degree of intelligence – that Neanderthals possessed was different in important respects from…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“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

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

Neanderthals might think differently than we do. We know that they had a larger cranial size. They could even be more intelligent than us.…

— George M. Church

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

— J. Michael Wahlgren

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

— E. M. Forster

“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

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

“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

“What if the first homo sapiens had felt that way? We’d all still be neanderthals, and when the Buggers came they would have blasted…

— Orson Scott Card

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared…

— Jane Goodall