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Certainly, we have entered into a new age on our planet.

Kenneth Lacovara

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Kenneth Lacovara
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 11
Paleontologist
New Jersey
United States
Kenneth John Lacovara
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When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic.
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If we want to know how the Earth's biosphere is going to respond to the things that humans are doing to the planet right now, the only evidence that we have is how biotic systems have responded in the past.
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