Quote by Juan Luis Arsuaga Download Open image ““the average Neanderthal cranial capacity was greater than that of modern humans.”” — Juan Luis Arsuaga ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“As neanderthals, writing on the caves, I write as a way to behave” — J. Michael Wahlgren Copy Share Image
“Without an ability to compose fiction, Neanderthals were unable to cooperate effectively in large numbers, nor could they adapt their social behaviour to rapidly… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The Neanderthals lived in Europe for more than a hundred thousand years and during that period they had no more impact on their surroundings than any other large vertebrate. There is every reason to believe that if humans had not arrived on the scene, the Neanderthals would be there still, along with the wild horses and the wooly rhinos. With… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge that… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“In fact, in the first recorded encounter between Sapiens and Neanderthals, the Neanderthals won.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The emerging and vital truth isn’t who is more Neanderthal than whom. It’s that all peoples, everywhere, enjoyed archaic human lovers whenever they could.… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“The red mammoth in the cave at Pindal is very special because its heart, also red, is depicted inside its chest.” — Juan Luis Arsuaga Copy Share Image
“prehistoric humans who discovered death reacted by celebrating life. Through self-adornment and embellishment, they affirmed their existence, defying the final tragedy to come. They… — Juan Luis Arsuaga Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
