Neanderthal Quotes

We've now got about 10 Neanderthal specimens of around 40-50,000 years old that have yielded DNA that is clearly distinct from anyone alive today. - Chris Stringer

These data are joining an increasing body of evidence that Neanderthal extinction was not due to any lack of ability to hunt. - John Shea

There would be a lot of really nice people saying a lot of nice things. But then I get to the one person who would say, His eyebrows look big. He ought to shave his eyebrows. He looks like a freaking Neanderthal. I thought, Thats so mean. I cant help my eyebrows, dude. - Andrew Garfield

There was no difference between what Neanderthals and modern humans could do [as hunters]. Both of them were wolves with knives. - John Shea

There are increasing indications that over many areas of Europe, the final demise of the Neanderthal populations may have coincided with the sudden onset of very much colder and drier climatic conditions. - Paul Mellars

The simple answer to the question of why Neanderthals became extinct is 'nobody knows,' but studies like this one certainly move us a lot closer to being able to make more clearly testable hypotheses. Now the hypothesis that Neanderthals became extinct because they were ineffective hunters is in deep trouble. - John Shea

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man. - Rachel Carson

The apparent antiquity of the gene responsible for red hair among Celtic peoples suggests that it may have arisen through interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, a genetics team in Oxford, England, suggested last month. - Robert Lee Hotz

One of the most important discoveries from studying ancient mitochondrial DNA is the estimate of when humans diverged in evolution from the Neanderthals - around half a million years ago. - Robert Foley