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Evolutionists call man’s so-called first ape-like ancestors Australo-

pithecus, which means “Southern ape”. These living beings are actual-
ly nothing but an 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 extinct and bore no resem-

blance to humans (Solly Zuckerman, Beyond the Ivory Tower, Toplinger
Publications, New York, 1970, 75-14; Charles E. Oxnard, “The Place of

Australopithecines in Human Evolution: Grounds for Doubt”, Nature, vol.
258, 389).
Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution as
“homo”, that is, “man.” According to their claim, the living beings in
the Homo series are more developed than Australopithecus. Evolution-
ists devise an imaginary evolution scheme by arranging different fos-
sils of these creatures in a particular order. This scheme is imaginary

because it has never been proven that there is any evolutionary rela-
tionship between these different classes.
By outlining the chain’s links as Australopithecus > Homo habilis >
Homo erectus > Homo sapiens, evolutionists imply that each of these
species is another’s ancestor. However, recent findings of paleoanthro-
pologists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo
erectus all lived at different parts of the world at the same time (Alan
Walker, Science, vol. 207, 7 March 1980, p. 1103; A. J. Kelso, Physical

Anthropology, 1st ed., J. B. Lipincott Co., New York, 1970, p. 221; M. D.
Leakey, Olduvai Gorge, vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, Cam-
bridge, 1971, p. 272.).
Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo erec-
tus have lived up until very modern times. Homo erectus and Homo
sapiens co-existed in the same region and era. (Jeffrey Kluger, “Not So
Extinct After All,” Time, 24 June 2001).
This situation indicates the invalidity of the claim that they are