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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 be-
longed to an ordinary ape species that became extinct and bore no re-
semblance to humans. 265
Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution as "homo,"
that is "man." According to their claim, the living beings in the Homo se-
ries are more developed than Australopithecus. Evolutionists devise a
fanciful evolution scheme by arranging different fossils of these crea-
tures in a particular order. This scheme is imaginary because it has nev-
er been proved that there is an evolutionary relation between these dif-
ferent 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 ex-
tremely difficult and may even resist a final, satisfying explanation." 266
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 paleoanthropolo-
gists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus
lived at different parts of the world at the same time. 267
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. 268
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that
they are ancestors of one another. 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:
What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lineages of
hominids (A. africanus, the robust australopithecines, and H. habilis),
none clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of the three display
any evolutionary trends during their tenure on earth. 269
Put briefly, the scenario of human evolution, which is "upheld" with
the help of various drawings of some "half ape, half human" creatures