Hominids Quotes

• 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.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Winning, Brain

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• Para investigar la historia del desarrollo del hombre, los hallazgos más importantes son, por supuesto, los fósiles de homínidos.

  Richard Leakey

  Hombres, Importantes, Fósiles

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• 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.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Stranger, Ability

  Entrevista con Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. Agosto de 2005.

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• La evolución humana y de los homínidos se produjo a lo largo de millones y no miles de millones de años, pero con la aparición del lenguaje se produjo una mayor aceleración del tiempo y del ritmo de cambio.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Cambio, Años, Lengua

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). "Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition", p.95, Andrews UK Limited.

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

  Ian Tattersall

  Adapted, Havens

  Ian Tattersall (2012). “Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins”, p.137, Macmillan

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• 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?

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Hands, Years

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• 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.

  Juan Enríquez

  Motivation, Moving, Inspiration

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Littles, Separation, Surprise

  Fuente: libcom.org

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Listening, Planets, Living On

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• En cierto sentido, nunca he superado la Historia de Robert Lowell. Un proyecto imperfecto e infinitamente brillante al que nunca me canso de volver. Es un Infierno moderno, en el que Lowell hace de Dante y Virgilio, guiándonos a través de docenas de esclarecedores y amargos episodios de la historia de la humanidad, al tiempo que se las arregla para sostener un espejo ante nuestro confundido rostro homínido que entrecierra los ojos ante la eternidad y no logra comprender nada de ella.

  André Naffis-Sahely

  Confuso, Espejos, Jugar

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Imagination, Mind

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• 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.

  John Reader

  Men, Convincing Evidence, Missing

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• El hecho de que todos nuestros primos simios -chimpancés, gorilas y orangutanes- puedan adquirir signos es una prueba contundente de que el primer lenguaje de nuestros antepasados homínidos fue gestual y que la versión vocal del lenguaje fue un desarrollo relativamente reciente. Yo creo que el lenguaje vocal empezó a surgir hace unos 200.000 años.

  Roger Fouts

  Primo, Poderoso, Años

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• 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.

  Michael Shermer

  Writing, Grandmother, Thinking

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.251, Holt Paperbacks

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