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“I didn’t like how my body seemed to be intent on sabotaging my brain, especially since my brain was so good at sabotaging itself.”

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“There has always been the wind. Since our planet began to turn, there has been the wind. This ball of dirt and fire and water started to spin. The air stirred. And Earth's time began. But the beginnings of the wind are lost in the mists of time. The wind blew before the Appian Way wended through Rome. It blew before the Parthenon crowned Athens. Before pyramids sprang up in Egypt. Before the Mayans. Before the Incas. Before Man.”

Mystery Ice Age Stone Age Prehistory Neanderthal

Book:Death in the Time of Ice

Source: Death in the Time of Ice

“Elizabeth called it my mane of hair; I called it my bane of hair. However, it was far worse looking when it was short, sticking straight up or out at awkward angles; at least when it was long it almost obeyed gravity.”

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Author:Penny Reid

“Geneticists are a group of mathematicians who have taken over the Neanderthal Paleontology Guild. They call the shots now.”

Genetics Paleontology Neanderthal Neanderthal Marries Human Paleontologists Geneticist

Book:Why God Doesn't Exist

Source: Why God Doesn't Exist

“I suggest that the type of consciousness – not merely the degree of intelligence – that Neanderthals possessed was different in important respects from that of Upper Palaeolithic people, and that this distinction precluded, for the Neanderthals, both image-making and elaborate burial.”

Upper Palaeolithic Art Neanderthal

Book:The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.”

Anthropology Genetics Paleontology Neanderthal Neanderthal Marries Human Paleontologists Geneticist

Book:Why God Doesn't Exist

Source: Why God Doesn't Exist

“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of geneticists that now make a living telling you what diseases you inherited from an extinct Arctic ape.”

Anthropology Genetics Paleontology Neanderthal Neanderthal Marries Human Paleontologists Geneticist

Book:Why God Doesn't Exist

Source: Why God Doesn't Exist

“When raping and pillaging is the preferred scheme for mating, speed is of the essence. So, the sturdy Neanderthals did not survive.”

Evolution Rape Anthropology Survival Of The Fittest Mating Mating Rituals Neanderthal Evolutionary Primitive Human

Author:Debra Gavant

“Help me to understand other people’s positions, Lord, even when I don’t share them. At the same time, grant me the strength to not ignore wrongdoing simply because it is committed by someone who is well intentioned. Let me be compassionate while remaining true to my convictions. Amen.”

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Book:Omphalos

Source: Omphalos

“Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural revolution turned you from free wanderers into slaves to the land. The Industrial Revolution robbed you of your souls and made you cruel. And the IT revolution gave you loneliness, hatred, and misery.”

Revolution Extinction Homo Sapiens Neanderthal Mammoths

Book:Extinction

Source: Extinction

“On a whim, I told Mom once about seeing the world as a series of grays, and she told me I was depressed. This didn’t feel like that. This emptiness was different.”

Depression Empty Isolation Gray Loner Outsider Not Human Alien Feelings

Book:What I Did

Source: What I Did