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

— Juan Luis Arsuaga

“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

“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

“You’ve probably heard a good deal about Neanderthal [Nee-AND-er-tall] people or almost-people. Sometime around 500,000 years ago, the ancestors of Neanderthals and modern humans…

— Bill Nye

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

“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

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

— Adam Rutherford

“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

Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

— Rachel Carson

The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.

— Juan Enriquez

“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