History Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“With the advent of literacy and other skills for acquiring, retaining, and sharing information, knowledge is now far more evenly distributed and widely available.…

— Vishen Lakhiani

“In Africa by 1.2 million years ago the brains of Homo rhodesiense had grown to within 6 per cent of the volume of modern…

— Stephen Oppenheimer

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“If a surviving relict population of very early hominins were to be discovered, we’d be more likely to send them to zoos than boarding…

— Daniel E. Lieberman

“Archaic humans paid for their large brains in two ways. Firstly, they spent more time in search of food. Secondly, their muscles atrophied. Like…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable…

— Anonymous

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

— Juan Luis Arsuaga

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

— Anonymous

“At only two points in human history had knowledge radically expanded on a global scale. Once during the Renaissance, which continued to the present,…

— Steve Berry

The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“how the foragers completely reshaped the ecology of our planet long before the first agricultural village was built. The wandering bands of storytelling Sapiens…

— Yuval Noah Harari