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from England and the USA, namely, Lord Solly Zuckerman
and Prof. Charles Oxnard, has shown that these belonged to an
ordinary ape species that became extinct and bore no resem-
blance to humans. 14
Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution as
"homo," that is "man." According to the evolutionist 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 between
these different classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the most important
proponents of the theory of evolution in the twentieth century,
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." 15
By outlining the link chain as "Australopithecus > Homo habilis
> Homo 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. 16
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) co-ex-
isted in the same region. 17
This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim
that they are ancestors of one another. A paleontologist from

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