Homo sapiens Quote by Katherine Applegate

The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

— Brian Aldiss

Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation…

— Stephen Fry

What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective…

— Peter Singer

“the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.”

— David Quammen

there are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men.

— Letitia Baldrige

“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to…

— Terry Pratchett

It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo…

— Henning Mankell

“technology. Homo sapiens is an obsolete algorithm. After all, what’s the advantage of”

— Yuval Noah Harari

When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to breathe and…

— Irvine Welsh

If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add…

— Leo Baekeland

“Archaic humans paid for their large brains in two ways. Firstly, they spent more time in search of food. Secondly, their muscles atrophied. Like…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we…

— Jonathan Ott