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beings are actually nothing but an old ape species that has become
extinct. Extensive research done on various Australopithecus speci-
mens by two world famous anatomists from England and the USA,
namely, Lord Solly Zuckerman and Prof. Charles Oxnard, shows
that these apes belonged to an ordinary ape species that became
extinct and bore no resemblance to humans. 38
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. Evolu-
tionists devise a fanciful evolution scheme by arranging different
fossils of these creatures in a particular order. This scheme is imagi-
nary because it has never been proved that there is an evolutionary
relation between these different classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the
twentieth century'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." 39
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. 40
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 (present-day man) co-
existed in the same region. 41
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
century: