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anatomists from England and the USA, namely, Lord Solly
Zuckerman and Prof. Charles Oxnard, has shown that these
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 the evolutionist 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 because it has
never been proved that there is an evolutionary relation be-
tween these different classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the most im-
portant proponents of the theory of evolution in the
twentieth century, 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 ha-
bilis > Homo erectus > Homo sapiens," evolutionists imply that
each of these species is one another's ancestor. However, re-
cent 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 (modern
man) co-existed in the same region. 17
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the
claim that they are ancestors of one another. A paleontologist
from Harvard University, Stephen Jay Gould, explains this
deadlock of the theory of evolution although he is an evolu-
tionist himself:

What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lin-