Ancestors Quote by Peter R. Grant

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

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

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

“The different human peoples did not evolve out of a common ancestor; they were each born out of the womb of their own homeland.…

— Anonymous

Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody ever guessed…

— Richard Dawkins

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is…

— Richard Dawkins

“During the decades after Darwin published, field geologists and paleontologists have gone on to uncover and discover thousands and thousands of fossils. They have…

— Bill Nye

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

By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from…

— Bob Waterston

Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record,…

— Francis Collins

“Darwin’s theory, laid out in On the Origin of Species in 1859, suggested that people and apes shared a common ancestor, and, coupled with…

— David Grann

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