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By outlining the link chain as Australopithecus > Homo habilis >

Homo erectus > Homo sapiens, evolutionists imply that each of these spe-
cies is one another’s ancestor. However, recent findings of paleoanth-
ropologists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo
erectus lived at different parts of the world at the same time. 16
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. 17
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that
they are ancestors of one another. The late Stephen Jay Gould explai-

ned this deadlock of the theory of evolution although he was himself
one of the leading advocates of evolution in the twentieth century:

What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting
lineages of hominids (A. africanus, the robust australopitheci-
nes, and H. habilis), none clearly derived from another?
Moreover, none of the three display any evolutionary trends
during their tenure on earth. 18

Put briefly, the scenario of human evolution, which is “upheld”
with the help of various drawings of some “half ape, half human” crea-
tures appearing in the media and course books, that is, frankly, by
means of propaganda, is nothing but a tale with no scientific founda-
tion.

Lord Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and respected sci-
entists in the U.K., who carried out research on this subject for years
and studied Australopithecus fossils for 15 years, finally concluded,
despite being an evolutionist himself, that there is, in fact, no such
family tree branching out from ape-like creatures to man.
Zuckerman also made an interesting “spectrum of science” ran-
ging from those he considered scientific to those he considered unsci-
entific. According to Zuckerman’s spectrum, the most “scientific”—