Quotes About Neanderthals

#1. Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.

Sandra Brown

#2. I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to build up these enormous societies, and spread around the globe, and develop the technology that I think no one can doubt is unique to humans.

Svante Paabo

#3. Had the Neanderthals survived, would we still imagine ourselves to be a creature apart? Perhaps this is exactly why our ancestors wiped out the Neanderthals. They were too familiar to ignore, but too different to tolerate.

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. 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 only settled on almost every habitable speck of land on the planet, they developed technology that allowed them to go to the moon and beyond.

Svante Paabo

#5. Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt ... they work together.

Russell Banks

#6. Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.

Chris Pine

#7. We've been stuck in one species since our Cro-Magnon ancestors helped to wipe out the smarter Neanderthals," she said. "Now it's our chance to diversify rapidly, and institutions like the Hegemony, the Pax, and the Core are stopping it.

Dan Simmons

#8. The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

George M. Church

#9. in the first recorded encounter between Sapiens and Neanderthals, the Neanderthals won. About 100,000 years ago, some Sapiens groups migrated north to the Levant, which was Neanderthal territory, but failed to secure a firm footing.

Yuval Noah Harari

#10. Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

Sam Kean

#11. It was a lot easier to be optimistic about equality when you didn't have to confront the Neanderthals on a daily basis. When you could imagine that people were actually changing their minds because they'd stopped groping secretaries at the photocopier.

Val McDermid

#12. Neanderthals might think differently than we do. We know that they had a larger cranial size. They could even be more intelligent than us. When the time comes to deal with an epidemic or getting off the planet or whatever, it's conceivable that their way of thinking could be beneficial.

George M. Church

#13. Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo
habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are
the only surviving species.

Joe Quirk

#14. 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 us all to bits and that would be that." "We didn't evolve from neanderthals," said Bean. "Well, it's a good thing we have that little fact squared away," said Petra.

Orson Scott Card

#15. Well, good for you, a breakthrough. The Neanderthals will be pleased to have their leader back.

Kate Stewart

#16. Neanderthals usually hunted alone or in small groups. Sapiens, on the other hand, developed techniques that relied on cooperation between many dozens of individuals, and perhaps even between different bands.

Yuval Noah Harari

#17. Neanderthals made their exit roughly 30,000 years ago. The

Yuval Noah Harari

#18. With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it. A tiny set of genetic variations divides us from the Neanderthals, but that has made all the difference.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#19. In Hollywood, there really is a stigma against wrestling. I think that's why people think wrestlers are Neanderthals who can't string two words together.

Chris Jericho

#20. I don't care what those two Neanderthals say. You'll always be my baby girl first." I

Liane Moore

#21. I've talked to biblical cats, and Neanderthals who been here since day one. No one here has even seen the Big Boss. Ever.

Lenny Bruce

#22. Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#23. It seems that about 50,000 years ago, Sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans were at that borderline point. They were almost, but not quite, entirely separate species.

Yuval Noah Harari

#24. The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.

Juan Enriquez

#25. I like to imagine that the Neanderthals were all really good artists.

Jim Drain

#26. Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

E.B. White

#28. And though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.

Herman Melville

#29. Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Nelson Mandela

#30. One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.

Mother Teresa

#31. At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.

Mike Tyson

#32. Every footfall of my boots echoes and ricochets louder and louder, the excruciating stroll I take induces her heartbeat into pecking so hard and erratic, my dick starts hurting with an anticipatory throb.

Poppet

#33. I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.

Mike Tyson

#34. When i was younger, one piece of advice from a mentor stuck with me for years....
"When shaking someones hand make sure its strong and confident. For 1st impressions last and your character is automatically assumed in that one second of greeting...

Daleen Van Tonder