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The conference chairman kept referring to the Holocene, the epoch that began at the end of the last ice age, 11,500 years ago, and thatâofficially, at leastâcontinues to this day. 'Let's stop it,' Crutzen recalls blurting out. 'We are no longer in the Holocene. We are in the Anthropocene.' Well, it was quiet in the room for a while.
The second of the great eras of life on earth, the Paleozoic (542 to 250 million years ago) witnessed the evolution of the first complex, multicellular life forms, ranging from the bizarre marine arthropods of the Cambrian Explosion to the mammal-like reptiles of the Permian period.