Friday, 13 March 2015

Anthropocene: New dates proposed for the 'Age of Man'

"Maize from Central America was grown in southern Europe and Africa and China. Potatoes from South America were grown in the UK, and all the way through Europe to China. Species went the other way: wheat came to North America and sugar came to South America - a real mixing of species around the world.

We saw these species jump continents, which is a geologically unprecedented impact, setting Earth off on a new evolutionary trajectory."

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