Crowds Quote by Svante Paabo

“According to the fossil record, Neanderthals appeared between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago and existed until about 30,000 years ago. Throughout their entire existence…

— Svante Pääbo

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

— 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

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

Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

— Rachel Carson

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

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

— Anonymous

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

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

“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It’s a common fallacy to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting the Neanderthals,…

— Yuval Noah Harari