Homo sapiens Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived mainly in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The truth is that from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and the same…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The truth is that from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and the same…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

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

“The different human peoples did not evolve out of a common ancestor; they were each born out of the womb of their own homeland.…

— Anonymous

“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

“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

“What if the first homo sapiens had felt that way? We’d all still be neanderthals, and when the Buggers came they would have blasted…

— Orson Scott Card

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

“In the penultimate stages of writing this book, the date of the great exodus from Africa may have shifted more than 10,000 years earlier…

— Adam Rutherford

Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins,…

— Stephen Jay Gould