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Origin of Man: Fossilized Homo Erectus Skull Unearthed in China

It was always a debate about the origin of man. While faith always relies on the Bible, science always relies on facts, history and of course, archeological finds. One of these first men, our ancestor, is the Homo Erectus. Homo erectus (meaning "upright man", from the Latin ērigere, "to put up, set upright") is an extinct species of hominid that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch. It’s earliest fossil evidence dates to 1.8 million years ago and the most recent to 70,000 years ago. Its extinction is linked by some scientists to the Toba super-eruption catastrophe, but no sufficient case has been made to date for the idea. It is generally thought that H. erectus originated in Africa and spread from there, migrating throughout Eurasia as far as Georgia, India, Sri Lanka, China and Indonesia. But other scientists are claiming that the species rose first, or separately, in Asia. Debate also continues about the classification, ancestry, and

Super Earth, ExoPlanet and The Ocean to Sustain Life

As curious as it is when we were kids, we always tend to look up in the sky then wonder if there’s a life other than us? Aliens as we call them and we’ve only braced our imagination through the movies, still, questions never answered. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA keeps on looking at every angle in the universe in search for life. Then year 2015, came a great discovery… They are calling it The Exoplanets. NASA's Kepler space telescope celebrated its 1,000th exoplanet discovery earlier this month, an impressive milestone in the search for life on other worlds. Just for a quick glance on what Exoplanet is, according to Wiki, an exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun, a stellar remnant, or a brown dwarf. Nearly 2000 exoplanets have been discovered (1931 planets in 1221 planetary systems including 484 multiple planetary systems as of 6 July 2015). There are also rogue planets, which do not orbit any