Animal Quote by Richard Dawkins

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic…

— Colin Camerer

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

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of…

— Lewis Thomas

For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard…

— Michael Behe

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

— Peter R. Grant

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and…

— John Medina

DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

— Spencer Wells

“human beings are actually more closely related to the two species of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes, the familiar chimp, and Pan paniscus, the rare, smaller…

— Daniel C. Dennett

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

— Walter Gilbert

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family…

— Henry Louis Gates

Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most…

— Richard Dawkins

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family…

— Henry Louis Gates