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           erectus lived at different parts of the world at the same time. 15
               Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as
           Homo erectus have lived up until very modern times. Homo
           sapiens neandarthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens (mod-
           ern man) co-existed in the same region. 16
               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 evo-
           lution in the twentieth century:
               What has become of our ladder if there are three coex-
               isting lineages of hominids (A. africanus, the robust aus-
               tralopithecines, and H. habilis), none clearly derived from
               another? Moreover, none of the three display any evolu-
               tionary trends during their tenure on earth. 17
               Put briefly, the scenario of human evolution, which is
           "upheld" with the help of various drawings of some "half ape,
           half human" creatures appearing in the media and course
           books, that is, frankly, by means of propaganda, is nothing
           but a tale with no scientific foundation.
               Lord Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and
           respected scientists in the U.K., who carried out research on
           this subject for years and studied Australopithecus fossils for
           15 years, finally concluded, despite being an evolutionist him-
           self, that there is, in fact, no such family tree branching out
           from ape-like creatures to man.
               Zuckerman also made an interesting "spectrum of sci-
           ence" ranging from those he considered scientific to those he
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