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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

USA, namely, Lord Solly Zuckerman and Prof. Charles Oxnard, shows
that these apes belonged to an ordinary ape species that became ex-
tinct and bore no resemblance to humans. 152
Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution as
"homo," that is "man." According to their claim, the living beings in the
Homo series are more developed than Australopithecus. Evolutionists
devise a fanciful evolution scheme by arranging different fossils of
these creatures in a particular order. This scheme is imaginary be-
cause it has never been proved that there is an evolutionary relation
between these different classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth cen-
tury's most important evolutionists, contends in his book One Long
Argument that "particularly historical [puzzles] such as the origin of life
or of Homo sapiens, are extremely difficult and may even resist a final,
satisfying explanation." 153
By outlining the link chain as Australopithecus > Homo habilis >
Homo erectus > Homo sapiens, evolutionists imply that each of these
species is one another's ancestor. However, recent findings of pale-
oanthropologists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo habilis,
and Homo erectus lived at different parts of the world at the same
time. 154
Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo erec-
tus have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens nean-
darthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens (man) co-existed in the same
region. 155
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that
they are ancestors of one another. The late Stephen Jay Gould ex-
plained this deadlock of the theory of evolution although he was him-
self one of the leading advocates of evolution in the twentieth century:
What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting line-
ages of hominids (A. africanus, the robust australopithecines, and
H. habilis), none clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of
the three display any evolutionary trends during their tenure on
earth. 156

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