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1. Australopithecus
2. Homo habilis
3. Homo erectus
4. Homo sapiens
Evolutionists call man's so-called first ape-like ancestors
Australopithecus, which means "South African ape." These living beings are
actually nothing but an old ape species that has become extinct. Extensive
research done on various 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. 37
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. 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." 38

Evolutionists generally
interpret fossils in the light of
their ideological expectations,
for which reason the
conclusions they arrive at are
for the most part unreliable.