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Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo erectus
have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens neandarthalen-
sis and Homo sapiens sapiens (man) co-existed in the same region.
(Jeffrey Kluger, "Not So Extinct After All: The Primitive Homo Erectus
May Have Survived Long Enough To Coexist With Modern Humans,"
Time, 23 December 1996)
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that
they are ancestors of one another. The late Stephen Jay Gould
explained this deadlock of the theory of evolution although he was
himself one of the leading advocates of evolution in the twentieth cen-
tury:

What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lineages 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. (S. J. Gould, Natural History,
vol. 85, 1976, p. 30)

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