Erectus Quotes

It (i. e., agriculture) was the most profound revolution in hominid living since Homo erectus had left the forest and committed themselves to the savannah. Compared to this phase shift, the advances of the future-even genetic engineering-were details. There would never be so significant a change again, not until humans themselves disappeared from the planet. (Stephen Baxter)
Shortly after pithecanthropus erectus gained the ascendancy, he turned his attention to the higher-order abstractions. View quote
Richard Arnold Epstein