1610 is the year humans started changing the planet: Bob McDonald

Friday, March 13, 2015 - 15:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A group of scientists is suggesting the year 1610 as the beginning of what has become known as the Age of Humans, a new epoch in the Earth’s history in which the dominant agent of change is humanity, writes Bob McDonald.

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