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You cannot download interactives. Extinction is the complete disappearance of a species from Earth. It's hard to say how this geologic debate will play out. Defining the past is clearly hard enough; what happens in the future is anyone's guess. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
Avery Thompson twitter. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. It became particularly difficult for Neanderthals to compete with the innovative Homo sapiens , and with a geographic range limited by their specialization to cold, they eventually went extinct.
While Neanderthals and all other early human species exhibited some of the human characteristics of adaptability, Homo sapiens distinguish themselves with an extreme reliance on altering their landscapes and themselves for survival. The volatility of past climates does not diminish the effects of human activity in the Anthropocene.
The types of changes that we have seen in the last two hundred years are far outside the range of variability we see in the past. Examining the Anthropocene through the lens of our evolutionary history shows us that the themes of resilience and adaptability are critical to the history of our species in the past and in the Anthropocene.
These distinctive traits of our lineage have created a human species that is defined by its ability to alter its behavior and environment as a mode of survival.
These themes are critical to understanding how the Anthropocene has come to be, and how we will survive into the future. We can never return the environment to how it was in the past. The conditions of the past have been so varied that there is no stable baseline on which to base what "the past" looked like. Stories of mass extinctions and the destruction of our major cities are useful tools to put the urgency of our situation in perspective. None of this is inaccurate, and it is critical that the public, and especially those in positions of power, understand the scope of influence our species has had on the planet.
But oftentimes this dialogue leaves out a critical perspective: what we can do to change our behavior and environment to create a positive future. The story of human evolution features a unique ability to adapt in the face of changing climates, and this will be no different for human-shaped climates of today and the future. With our own growing awareness of how our actions impact the natural world, the question is how best we can shape our actions so that the consequences of our activities are purposeful and positive.
Altering our surroundings is fundamental to human survival. In this light, how may we come to alter the world that we've created in a conscious and productive way?
Community and global collaboration, along with innovation, will be the keys to creating a new path for the future of our species and our environment. By looking at the Anthropocene from a human origins viewpoint, the narrative of our collective humanity and the qualities that unite us as a species with a common origin can give us a sense of communal purpose in developing solutions for the problems of the Anthropocene. These are some of the many questions that we must answer as we begin to craft the future of the Anthropocene:.
Contemplating these questions will help us begin to determine the future of the Anthropocene. The themes of self-determination, community, and action will all be parts of the human-driven innovation for the future of the planet. As we look to the future, we will see not only the planet change, but we may even see changes in ourselves as a species.
We invite you to contemplate: What will it mean to be human in the future of the Anthropocene? Smithsonian Statement on Climate Change. What is the Anthropocene and Are We in It? Living in the Anthropocene: The Age of Humans. About the Image of Earth at Night. Images of the Present-Day Anthropocene. During the Paleozoic Era multicelled living things acquired hard body parts, bones, vertebral columns, mandibles, and teeth.
Common in the Paleozoic Era were trilobites, crinoids, brachiopods, fish, insects, amphibians, and early reptiles. The Mesozoic Era was important for the fossil remains of the dinosaurs and other reptiles that lived.
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