"Anthropocene" documents the impact of human activities on the environment and organisms

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The journal "Anthropocene" published in its issue No. 29 a research paper issued by the Department of Earth Sciences and Environment from the University of Illinois in Chicago, where it raises a debate about the role of humans in influencing the type of fossil record in the new human geological era, which is called "Anthropocene."

Researchers Roy E. Plutnik and Karen E. Koye review the impact of human activities on Earth, which in turn has resulted in a marked shift in existing biomass patterns, counts, and conservation locations, which changes the components of the prospective fossil record.

These issues are essential to predict the future fossil record of modern vertebrate animals, and to determine whether there will be an anthropocene biological graphics unit.

New fossil record
The researchers believe that the opportunity for wild animals to appear in the future fossil record has become relatively small, due to the dominance of humans and their pets over the global population of mammals around the world, and thus the future record of mammals will include cows, pigs, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, etc., in addition to humans themselves.

The researchers cited that the number of people and their animals far exceeds the number of wild animals. For example, in Michigan State, humans and animals alone make up about 96% of the total mass of mammals there, and this proportion is also likely to be true in many places around the world.

Where the number of dogs around the world is estimated at nine hundred million, and one hundred million wild cats, compared to a negligible number of wild animals.

The impact of human activity
The researchers also pointed to the human role in changing the distribution and characteristics of natural sites for preserving the new fossil record and its quality, including a noticeable change in land use and climate change, the production of new conservation sites, such as landfills and cemeteries, and changes in the biodegradation of animal and human carcasses.

Where hunting produces distinct animal bones, but they are buried randomly, which does not preserve the privacy of each species. The use of large agricultural equipment is likely to damage the layers of soil that preserve these bones, and could also damage their integrity.

Thus, the fossil record for mammals in modern times will be unique in the history of the earth, and may help distinguish the limits of the proposed time period for anthropocene.

Anthropocene
The Anthropocene symbolizes the human geological age, in which humans excel by influencing climate, the environment, and all the vital systems on Earth.

Scientists have worked hard to introduce this term to the ladder of geological ages in Earth's history. By 1995 this term was officially adopted, thanks to the Dutch-climate scientist, Paul Krutzen, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. The scientific community is still witnessing intense debate about the validity of this term and the time period that should be attributed to him.

In this way, the future paleontologist will explore a fossil record consisting of a large number of human skeletons, in addition to "corpses" and individual bones of mammals as well, which will prove our entry into the Anthropocene era.

Finally, such conclusions cannot end the debate over the signing of the controversial beginning of the Anthropocene era, but it does provide interesting new clues and research.