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Evolutionists call the so-called first ape-like ancestors of men

"Australopithecus," which means "south African ape." These creatures

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 Professor Charles Oxnard, has shown that these

belonged to an ordinary ape species that became extinct and bore no

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Evolutionists classify the next stages 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 relationship between these different classes. Ernst Mayr,

one of the most important proponents of the theory of evolution in the

20th century, contends in his book, One Long Argument,, that

"particularly historical [puzzles] such as the origin of life or of Homo

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Beyond the Ivory Tower, pp. 75-94; Charles E. Oxnard, "The Place of Australopithecines in
Human Evolution: Grounds for Doubt," Nature, vol. 258, p. 389.

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