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gories" are listed:
1. Australopithecus

2. Homo habilis
3. Homo erectus
4. Homo sapiens
Evolutionists call man's so-called first ape-like ances-
tors 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 ex-
tinct and bore no resemblance to humans. 179
Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolu-
tion 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 ex-
planation." 180