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tionists imply that each of these species is one anoth-
er's ancestor. However, recent findings of paleoanthro-
pologists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo
habilis, and Homo erectus lived at different parts of the
world at the same time. 16
Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as
Homo erectus have lived up until very modern times.
Ho omo sapiens neandarthalensis and Homo sapiens
sapiens (present-day man) co-existed in the same
region. 17
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of
the claim that they are ancestors of one another. The
late Stephen Jay Gould explained this deadlock of the
theory of evolution although he was himself one of the
leading advocates of evolution in the twentieth century:
What has become of our ladder if there are three coex-
isting lineages of hominids (A. africanus, the robust
australopithecines, and H. habilis), none clearly
derived from another? Moreover, none of the three
display any evolutionary trends during their tenure on
earth. 18
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 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