Big Quote by Michaela Strachan

It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“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

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

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.

— Merle Haggard

“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

“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of geneticists that…

— Bill Gaede

I looked real Neanderthal. I could have been Mexican, I could have been black; I could have been anything.

— Wolfman Jack

I don't think we interbred with the Neanderthals at all. There are some people who think that there was some level of interbreeding. I…

— Donald Johanson

“Among the genetic gifts the Neanderthals passed on to us, it seems, is red hair, bless them.”

— Bill Bryson

“DNA evidence suggests that Neanderthals carried a gene known as DRD4-7R as long as forty thousand years ago. DRD4-7R is responsible for a constellation…

— Adam Alter

“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

“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.”

— Bill Gaede