Elaine Morgan Quotes

• It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.

  Elaine Morgan

  Moon, Men, Thinking

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• The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

  Elaine Morgan

  Believe, Taken, Men

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.

  Elaine Morgan

  Men, Two, Mammals

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• Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA, and immunological responses, the differences between a man and a chimpanzee are more astonishing than the resemblances.

  Elaine Morgan

  Men, Dna, Blood

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• The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

  Elaine Morgan

  Thinking, Professionalism, Trouble

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.10, Souvenir Press

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• It takes two to make a woman into a sex object.

  Elaine Morgan

  Sex, Two, Sexism

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.228, Souvenir Press

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• I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race.

  Elaine Morgan

  Believe, Men, Race

  Elaine Morgan (1973). “The descent of woman”

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• Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.

  Elaine Morgan

  Class, Two, Mammals

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis”, p.69, Souvenir Press

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