Cro-Magnon Quotes

“at a seminal yet still little known moment in history, Homo sapiens developed the full battery of cognitive skills that we ourselves possess. After a surprisingly short time, perhaps a mere five thousand years, their descendants moved northward into Eurasia and Europe.”
― Brian M. Fagan, Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

“As the late Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould once memorably remarked, we humans are all descendants from the same African twig.”
― Brian M. Fagan, Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

“To hunt successfully and survive, they had to know the habits of their quarry as well as they knew their own kin. Success depended as much on stalking as it did on weapons.”
― Brian M. Fagan, Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

“Let us hope it is not true,” cried one horrified lady upon hearing that humans were descended from apes, “but if it is, let us pray it will not become generally known.”
― Brian M. Fagan, Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

“About 90 percent of the past five hundred thousand years have been colder than today, and the world’s climate has been in transition from cold to warm or back again for about three quarters of that time.”
― Brian M. Fagan, Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans