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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

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. 14
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 be-
tween these different classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the twenti-
eth century's most important evolutionists, contends in his
book One Long Argument that "particularly historical [puz-
zles] such as the origin of life or of Homo sapiens, are ex-
tremely 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 dif-
ferent parts of the world at the same time. 16

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