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Anthropology Magazine
For millennia, humans have been altering the Earth—for example, through agricultural adaptations such as these rice terraces near Pokhara, Nepal.
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How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene?

Ben Marwick, Erle C. Ellis, Lucas Stephens, and Nicole Boivin
A global survey of scientists shines a light on the time depth of human impacts on Earth.