How To Recognize the Anthropocene

Explore the Anthropocene geological epoch, highlighting our species' dominance and its potential layers for future geologists.

ByCarl Zimmer
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Elizabeth Kolbert writes this morning about the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch marked by the dominance of our species. It may be hard to precisely mark its beginning, but here's why I think it will be easy for geologists 10 million years in the future to pinpoint layers of Anthropocene rocks.

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