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ous Australopithecus specimens 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. 14
Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution
as "homo," that is "man." According to their claim, the liv-
ing 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 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." 15
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 paleoanthropologists 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 neandarthalensis 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 explained this deadlock of the theory of
evolution although he was himself one of the leading advo-