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evo lu tion a ry proc ess, which is sup posed to have start -
ed 4-5 mil lion years ago, some "tran si tion al forms"
between mod ern man and his ances tors are sup posed
to have exist ed. According to this com plete ly imag i -
nary sce nar io, four basic "cat e go ries" are list ed:
1. Australopithecus
2. Homo habi lis
3. Homo erec tus
4. Homo sapi ens
Evolutionists call man's so-called first ape-like
ances tors Australopithecus, which means "South
African ape." These liv ing beings are actu al ly noth ing
but an old ape spe cies that has become extinct.
Extensive research done on var i ous Australopithecus
spec i mens by two world famous anat o mists from
England and the USA, name ly, Lord Solly Zuckerman
and Prof. Charles Oxnard, shows that these apes
belonged to an ordi nary ape spe cies that became
extinct and bore no resem blance to humans. 13
Evolutionists clas si fy the next stage of human evo -
lu tion as "homo," that is "man." According to their
claim, the liv ing beings in the Homo series are more
devel oped than Australopithecus. Evolutionists devise
a fan ci ful evo lu tion scheme by arrang ing dif fer ent fos -
sils of these crea tures in a par tic u lar order. This scheme
is imag i nary because it has never been proved that
there is an evo lu tion a ry rela tion between these dif fer ent
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