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Anthropocene began with species exchange between Old and New Worlds

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When Europeans first arrived in the Americas they didn’t just make human history – they changed planet Earth forever.

Christopher Columbus: discoverer of continents, definer of geological epochs. Albert Bierstadt: The Landing Of Columbus (1892) https://theconversation.com/anthropocene-began-with-species-exchange-between-old-and-new-worlds-38674 https://theconversation.com/anthropocene-began-with-species-exchange-between-old-and-new-worlds-38674 Link copied Share article Share article Copy link Email Bluesky Facebook WhatsApp Messenger LinkedIn X (Twitter) Print article Time is divided by geologists according to marked shifts in the Earth’s state. Human activity has clearly altered the land surface, oceans and

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