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sapiens are extremely difficult and may even resist a final, satisfying

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explanation."

By outlining the chain links as Australopithecus > Homo habilis >

Homo erectus > Homo sapiens,, evolutionists imply that each of these

species is another's ancestor. However, recent findings of

paleoanthropologists have actually revealed that Australopithecus,

Homo habilis and Homo erectus lived in different parts of the world at

the same time. 142

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) coexisted

in the same region. 143 This situation apparently indicates the invalidity

of the claim that they are ancestors of one another. A paleontologist

from Harvard University, Stephen Jay Gould, explains this deadlock in

the theory of evolution although he is an evolutionist himself:

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,

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Cited in "Could science be brought to an end by scientists' belief that they have final
answers or by society's reluctance to pay the bills?" Scientific American, December, 1992,
p. 20.
142 R.E.F. Leakey, A. Walker, "On the Status of Australopithecus afarensis," Science, vol. 207,
issue 4435, 7 March, 1980, p. 1103.
143 Jeffrey Kluger, "Not So Extinct After All: The Primitive Homo Erectus May Have Survived
Long Enough to Coexist with Modern Humans," Time, 23 December, 1996.

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