Ancestry Quote by Michael Behe

Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives

— Michael Behe

Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have…

— Richard Dawkins

“Proponents of the "we're all one race," swill took another hit recently when scientists revealed that bananas share about 50% of the DNA of…

— H. Millard

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic…

— Colin Camerer

“In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4% of our total DNA sequences with the chimpanzee.”

— Jill Bolte Taylor

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as…

— Elliott Sober

Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection.…

— Elliott Sober

If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far…

— Jane Goodall

DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

— Spencer Wells

DNA tests and Darwin's Theory of Man's Evolution is not at all linked since Human Race is all over universe and there are trillions…

— Ashwani Kumar Ojha

“In the 1970s Allan Wilson and Mary-Claire King at Berkeley correctly theorized that the evolution of genes is less important than the evolution of…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

— Michael Behe