Paul Broca Quotes

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

It is interesting that the U.S. has this very strong proportion of the population that rejects scientific conclusions about the age of the Earth and about evolutionary relationships between species, including humans.

If God used evolution, God came from an ape.

We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.

We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate with which human beings share such close physical characteristics. From them we may learn much concerning the behavior of our earliest primate prototypes, because behavior, unlike bones, teeth, or tools, does not fossilize.

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.