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Historian Charles Mann has suggested that this mashed-up new biological phase we’ve induced be called the Homogenocene, as we have blended so many evolving populations, once geographically dispersed and isolated, into one homogenized genetic broth. In the 1970s Carl Sagan used to zip around Ithaca, New York, with a bumper sticker on his orange Porsche reading, Reunite Gondwanaland! referring to the time when all Earth’s continents were merged into one supercontinent. I guess, biologically, this is what we’ve now done. We’ve seriously rearranged the evolutionary geometry of the world—and

David Grinspoon

Historian Charles Mann has suggested that this mashed-up new biological phase we’ve induced be called the Homogenocene, as we have blended so many evolving populations, once geographically dispersed and isolated, into one homogenized genetic broth. In the 1970s Carl Sagan used to zip around Ithaca, New York, with a bumper sticker on his orange Porsche reading, Reunite Gondwanaland! referring to the time when all Earth’s continents were merged into one supercontinent. I guess, biologically, this is what we’ve now done. We’ve seriously rearranged the evolutionary geometry of the world—and

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