Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

Have human beings permanently changed the ... we are officially in the Holocene (“entirely recent”) epoch, which began 11,700 years ago after the last major ice age. But that label is outdated ...

The scientific consensus is that people have lived in the Holocene epoch for roughly 11,700 years, but some scientists argue human activity ... such as evolution and plate tectonics, where some ...

So it’s disconcerting to learn that many stratigraphers have come to believe that we are such an event—that human beings ... kept referring to the Holocene, the epoch that began at the end ...

atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer proposed that the Holocene epoch had ended and the "Anthropocene," or human epoch, had begun. But despite the extent of human-induced ...

This image shows the evolution of temperature during the Holocene era and some of the key mechanisms responsible for the increase in temperature over the last 12,000 years.

The word Anthropocene comes from the Greek terms for human ('anthropo') and new ('cene'), but its ... For the last 11,500 years, Earth has been in the Holocene Epoch. It began at the end of the last ...

Throughout the Holocene ... adaptive capacity of human systems 6. For example, projections from global climate models are rarely used to drive models of geomorphological evolution in glaciated ...

Work is under way at the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) to define the Anthropocene, the period from 1950 that is marked by the human ... time to the Holocene Epoch of the ...