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I don't think we interbred with the Neanderthals at all. There are some people who think that there was some level of interbreeding. I think that we look so biologically different, that we looked and we acted so different, and we culturally were so different that we would not have had interbreeding between two species.

— Donald Johanson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Donald Johanson

I looked real Neanderthal. I could have been Mexican, I could have been black; I could have been anything.

— Wolfman Jack

Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

— Sam Kean

I like to imagine that the Neanderthals were all really good artists.

— Jim Drain

Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. But we are all within the same species, Homo Sapiens.

— Ray Comfort

We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years.

— Hendrik Poinar

We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

— Alveda King

I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal.

— Henry Rollins

I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

✗Opposing Perspectives

What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to any other; none of them is more primitive than any other. We are all modern races of exactly equal status, evolutionarily speaking.

— Richard Dawkins