Ancestor Quote by Richard Dawkins

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

— Kin Hubbard

“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

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

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 is believed that 6 million years ago, a female ape gave birth to two daughters – one became the ancestor of all present-day…

— Read trepreneur

Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.

— Oliver Herford

“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

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

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

“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

“Interested in the origin of mammals? Go to rocks from the period called the Early Mesozoic; geochemistry tells us that these rocks are likely…

— Neil Shubin

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot…

— Bob Waterston