The history of life is littered with great upheavals: blooming diversity one epoch, mass wipe-outs the next.

生命的历史充斥着大动荡：繁荣多样的一个时代之后是大规模灭绝的另一个时代。

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Here at the foot of the Acropolis you are reminded that human beings do remarkably similar things from one historical epoch to the next.

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One argument against the idea that a new human-dominated epoch has recently begun is that humans have been changing the planet for a long time already, indeed practically since the start of the Holocene.

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