Primate Ancestry Quotes

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

If Darwin's theories are true, then we have within us the physical memory of when we were fish or apes.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

We are the naked monkey that went to the moon. People seem to forget that.

If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

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.

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

I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.