Ancestor Quote by Richard Dawkins

“Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that Darwin himself,…

— Henry Fairfield Osborn

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

— Jared Diamond

“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

“Linda continued stubbornly, “Evolution can’t be true, because if humans evolved from apes, then why are there still apes?” “Frankly, Linda, it is exactly…

— Diogenes of Mayberry

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

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

“The distinctiveness that we have so assiduously ascribed to ourselves as humans is, in reality, an accident of history. Imagine, for instance, how much…

— Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

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

— Kin Hubbard

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

Darwin's Theory of Earth's Evolution is not true since Human Race is all over universe and every matured earth gives birth to nascent earth…

— Ashwani Kumar Ojha

I don't think we came from monkeys. I think that's ridiculous. I haven't seen a half-monkey, half-person yet.

— Glenn Beck