Show Notes
Ninja reviews The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene by Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin. The book was published by Pelican in 2018 and explores the concept of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch, amongst all the controversy that entails (it appears that geologists can get quite riled about such things). Ultimately it shows how humans have become so dominant on Earth we are now leaving a geological record and have altered the course of evolution.
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