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When a governing body of the International Union of Geological Sciences voted down a proposal to name a new epoch in Earth’s history, it rejected conclusive evidence that for the first time, a single species — humans — has fundamentally altered the planet.
Are we living in “The Age of Humans” analogous to “The Age of the Dinosaurs?” The answer may seem blindly affirmative to the casual observer but its more complicated!