Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plas….

For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so ….

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern m….

The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds... the one thing we have more of than other….

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well..

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils..

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part o….

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task..

The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each othe….

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture..

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridor….

It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million, as ….

I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their right. What I fear is that th….

Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for com….

To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where w….

The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can see the changes. Unfortunat….

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, t….

In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term..

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause.

The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind ….

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection..