Evidence Quote by Noam Chomsky

A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at…

— Francisco J. Ayala

Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It’s important to keep in mind that when viewed against the full scale of our species’ existence, ten thousand years is but a brief…

— Christopher Ryan

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

What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what…

— Donald Johanson

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution…

— John G. D. Clark

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still…

— Edward Albee

“other words, while the behaviour patterns of archaic humans remained fixed for tens of thousands of years, Sapiens could transform their social structures, the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human…

— Carl Jung

Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which…

— Dale Jamieson

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