Ancestor Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as evidence now…

— Noam Chomsky

“There are many subtle variants of theistic evolution, but a typical version rests upon the following premises: The universe came into being out of…

— Francis S. Collins

Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million…

— Richard Dawkins

Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple…

— Robert Jastrow

The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual…

— John Desmond Bernal

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

— Sugata Mitra

None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate…

— Dian Fossey

“Humans first evolved in East Africa about 2.5 million years ago from an earlier genus of apes called Australopithecus, which means ‘Southern Ape’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans.…

— Al Jourgensen

“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin…

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared…

— Jane Goodall

We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth…

— Fred Hoyle