When did the 'age of humans' begin? - BBC Newsnight
For more than 11,000 years we've been languishing in a period of geological time called the Holocene, but many geologists believe the earth has entered a new epoch - the anthropocene - the age of humans. The only problem is they can't agree when it started.
The BBC's science correspondent Rebecca Morelle reports.
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The BBC's science correspondent Rebecca Morelle reports.
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