Best Hominids Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What … what other species are still endangered?” asked Ponter. Mary shrugged a little. “Lots of kinds of birds. Giant tortoises, Panda bears. Sperm whales, Chim…” “Chim?” said Ponter. “What are---?” He tilted his head, perhaps listening to Hak providing its best guess at the word Mary had started to say. “Oh, no. No. Chimpanzees? But … these are our cousins. You hunt our cousins?” Mary felt all of two feet tall. How could she tell him that chimps were killed for food, that gorillas were murdered so their hands could be made into exotic ashtrays? “They are invaluable,” continued Ponter. “Surely you, as a geneticist, must know that. They are the only close living relatives we have; we can learn much about ourselves by studying them in wild, by examining their DNA.” “I know,” said Mary, softly. “I know.” Ponter looked at Reuben, then at Louise, and then at Mary, sizing them up, it seemed, as if he were seeing them—really seeing them—for the first time. “You kill with abandon,” he said. “You kill entire species. You even kill other primates.” He paused and looked from face to face again, as if giving them a chance to forestall what he was about to say, to come up with a logical explanation, a mitigating factor. But Mary said nothing, and neither did the other two, and so Ponter went on. “And, on this world, my kind is extinct.”

Kill Chimpanzees Primates Hominids Extinct Cousins

Book:Hominids

Source: Hominids

“In any case, e lengeege weth e smell nember ef vewels cen remeen quete expresseve, so we cannot conclude that a hominid with a restricted vowel space had little language.”

Language Expression Linguistics Vowels Neanderthals Hominids

Book:The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

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

History Human Apes Anthropology Hominids

Book:It's Not You, It's Biology.: The Science of Love, Sex, and Relationships

Source: It's Not You, It's Biology.: The Science of Love, Sex, and Relationships

“Faith has been a cornerstone and foundation of our species, and other of the hominidae taxonomy for millions of years. It is the foundation of good relationships, confidence, and even discerning wisdom and truth.”

Faith Ancient Hominids

Book:The Leprechaun Delusion

Source: The Leprechaun Delusion

“Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother was German and my maternal grandfather was Greek. The next time I fill out one of those forms I am going to check 'Other' and write in the truth about my racial and cultural heritage: 'African-Greek-German-American.' And proud of it.”

Thinking Should Writing America Form Next Proud Boxes Checks African American Greek Grandmother Heritage Grandfather Next Time Cultural Heritage Hominids

Book:Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

“It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.”

Humans May Has Beens War Whole Winning Brain Principles Groups Huge Pressure Gaps Closest Warfare Inferiors Apes Human Brain Hominids

Author:Jane Goodall

“The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors' first language was gestural and that the vocal version of language was a relatively recent development. My own guess is that vocal language began emerging about 200,000 years ago.”

“The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, ... the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmented and inconclusive, that more can be said about what is missing than about what is present. ...but ever since Darwin's work inspired the notion that fossils linking modern man and extinct ancestor would provide the most convincing proof of human evolution, preconceptions have led evidence by the nose in the study of fossil man.”

“What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us.”

People Ability Species Stranger Related Cooperatives Hominids

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.”

World Mind Ends Imagination Animal Speech Substance Diets Psychedelic Synergy Psilocybin Hominids

Author:Terence McKenna

“In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to. It's a modern Inferno, where Lowell plays both Dante and Virgil, guiding us through dozens of illuminating, bitter episodes from human history, all the while managing to hold a mirror to our confused hominid face as it squints at eternity and fails to grasp any of it.”

Humans Play Faces Failing Modern Projects Eternity Mirrors Brilliant Bitter Confused Dozen Episodes Tire Flawed Human History Inferno Illuminating Hominids

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation from other hominids). That determines what we call their nature.”

Humans Littles Certain Surprise Species Determine Separation Considering Organisms Endowment Hominids

Author:Noam Chomsky

“More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago in what was then fresh volcanic ash. Who does not wonder what these individuals were to each other, whether they held hands or even talked, and what forgotten errand they shared in a Pliocene dawn?”

Years Doe Real Hands Together Three Individual Wonder Millions Walking Years Ago Forgotten Dawn Ashes Footprint Poignant Errands Tanzania Hominids Walking Together

Author:Richard Dawkins

“part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.”

Planets Listening Living On Rationalize Hominids

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.”

Havens Adapted Hominids

Book:Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins

Source: Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins

“Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.”

Years Humans Language Change Millions Evolution Rate Billions Emergence Human Evolution Acceleration Rate Of Change Hominids

Book:Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition

Source: Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition

“I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.”

Thinking Inspiration Moving Motivation Evolution Direct Species Deliberate Homo Sapiens Hominids

Author:Juan Enriquez

“To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.”

Men Important Courses Development Fossils Hominids

Author:Richard Leakey