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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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About David Grinspoon
His research focuses on comparative planetology, with a focus on climate evolution on Earth-like planets and implications for habitability. He has also studied, written and lectured on the human influence on Earth, as seen in cosmic perspective.
He has published four books, Venus Revealed, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize, Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life, which won the 2004 PEN literary award for nonfiction, Earth in Human Hands, which was named one of NPR's Science Friday "Best Science Books of 2016" and Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto, co-authored with Alan Stern. He is adjunct professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Science at the University of Colorado, a former Fellow of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth College and a former Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the College of the Environment at Wesleyan University.