{"id":248151,"date":"2024-04-02T09:25:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/in-denying-the-anthropocene-geologists-ignored-clear-evidence\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T10:42:40","slug":"in-denying-the-anthropocene-geologists-ignored-clear-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/in-denying-the-anthropocene-geologists-ignored-clear-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"In Denying the Anthropocene, Geologists Ignored Clear Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"
Charles Darwin upset a lot of people with his 1859 publication On the Origin of Species<\/em>. Like Copernicus and Galileo before him, Darwin radically revised the place of humans in the natural world. Victorian society believed that a beneficent creator made Earth and all its species in one fell swoop, installing Homo sapiens<\/em> near the top of the great chain of being. Darwin showed otherwise: new life forms, including humans, come into being as generations adapt to change over millions of years, and all species share one immense family tree. Darwin was widely attacked; as his biographer Janet Browne put it, his theory outraged competitors and turned \u201cfriends into deadly foes.\u201d<\/p>\n Today we are confronted with a similar rejection of scientific evidence from within the discipline that helped to prove Darwin correct: geology. Considering a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n