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Scientists peg Anthropocene to first farmers
2015-12-19 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new analysis of the fossil record shows that a deep pattern in nature remained the same for 300 million years. Then, 6,000 years ago, the pattern was disrupted -- at about the same time that agriculture spread across North America. "When early humans started farming and became dominant in the terrestrial landscape, we see this dramatic restructuring of plant and animal communities," said University of Vermont biologist Nicholas Gotelli, an expert on statistics and the senior author on the new...
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