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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

erman and Prof. Charles Oxnard, shows that these apes belonged to an
ordinary ape species that became extinct and bore no resemblance to hu-
mans. 75
Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution as "homo,"
that is "man." According to their claim, the living beings in the Homo se-
ries are more developed than Australopithecus. Evolutionists devise a fan-
ciful 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 between these different
classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth century's most important evolu-
tionists, contends in his book One Long Argument that "particularly his-
torical [puzzles] such as the origin of life or of Homo sapiens, are ex-
tremely difficult and may even resist a final, satisfying explanation." 76

By outlining the link chain as Australopithecus > Homo habilis > Ho-
mo erectus > Homo sapiens, evolutionists imply that each of these species is
one another's ancestor. However, recent findings of paleoanthropologists
have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus lived
at different parts of the world at the same time. 77
Moreover, a certain seg-
ment of humans classified as
Homo erectus have lived up un-
til very modern times. Homo
sapiens neandarthalensis and
Homo sapiens sapiens (man)
co-existed in the same region. 78
This situation apparently
indicates the invalidity of the

Evolutionists generally inter-
pret fossils in the light of their
ideological expectations, for
which reason the conclusions
they arrive at are for the most
part unreliable.

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