Bacteria 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

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

Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

— Jared Diamond

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

“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

“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

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

If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far…

— Jane Goodall

I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

— Garth Stein

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

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

— Spencer Wells

As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to…

— Francis Collins