Life Quote by Svante Pääbo

A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at…

— Francisco J. Ayala

“Modern humans arrived in Europe around forty thousand years ago, and again and again, the archaeological record shows, as soon as they made their…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“The Neanderthals were a proto-species, an embryonic light that flickered in evolutionary time, but was not strong enough to stand across epochs.”

— Adam Rutherford

In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement crowd not…

— Svante Paabo

“The Neanderthals lived in Europe for more than a hundred thousand years and during that period they had no more impact on their surroundings…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals…

— Donald Johanson

“You’ve probably heard a good deal about Neanderthal [Nee-AND-er-tall] people or almost-people. Sometime around 500,000 years ago, the ancestors of Neanderthals and modern humans…

— Bill Nye

Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

— Rachel Carson

“The emerging and vital truth isn’t who is more Neanderthal than whom. It’s that all peoples, everywhere, enjoyed archaic human lovers whenever they could.…

— Sam Kean

I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to…

— Svante Paabo

“the average Neanderthal cranial capacity was greater than that of modern humans.”

— Juan Luis Arsuaga

Because of movies we've thought of Neanderthals as being these slightly stupid, thuggish humans and they weren't. They were really well adapted to survive…

— Michaela Strachan