Quote by Scott Atran

“What appears to be lacking, even in great apes, is a motivation to find means to exchange what is on each other’s minds.”

— Thomas Suddendorf

There can be no doubt that the difference between the mind of the lowest man and that of the highest animal is immense. An…

— Anonymous

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich…

— Peter Singer

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty…

— Dale Jamieson

“I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard”

— Alfred Döblin

Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse

— Frans De Waal

We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human…

— Colin Blakemore

There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties

— Charles Darwin

To say we evovled from apes is an argumentative phase/I don't have time for theories or a broad thought plan/Science can't document the entire…

— C-DASH

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the…

— Carl Sagan

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

— H. Allen Smith

As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us,…

— Thomas Huxley