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The epoch of humans

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People have changed the world irrevocably. Jan Zalasiewicz discusses whether formalization of the Anthropocene as an epoch in geological time will help us understand our place in Earth history.

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  1. Jan Zalasiewicz is in the Department of Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK,

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Zalasiewicz, J. The epoch of humans. Nature Geosci 6, 8–9 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1674

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