Behavioral Similarity Quotes

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

It's funny, I see my dad in myself when I say certain things or I do certain things. I'll say, 'That was my dad right there.'

Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can't be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren't very different from other animals.

My mom and I have the exact same mannerisms - the way we talk and the gestures that we made.

When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.

It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?

I'm never more encouraged than to hear someone talk about how eerie it is that I move like my father.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.