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Humans play a key role in the biosphere, with the large human population dominating many of Earth's ecosystems. [3] [18] This has resulted in a widespread, ongoing mass extinction of other species during the present geological epoch, now known as the Holocene extinction.
The estimated time for the full recovery of biodiversity after a potential Holocene extinction, if it were on the scale of the five previous major extinction events. [56] Even without a mass extinction, by this time most current species will have disappeared through the background extinction rate, with many clades gradually evolving into new forms.
The Earth After Us explores the geological legacy of the human species; There Will Come Soft Rains, a 1920 poem by Sara Teasdale; After Man: A Zoology of the Future considers the evolution of life on Earth 50 million years after the extinction of human beings.
A previous study showed the mass extinction of many large mammals is likely attributable to the rise of modern man during and immediately after the last ice age. Had humans never made their ...
Life After People is a television series on which scientists, mechanical engineers, and other experts speculate about what might become of planet Earth if humanity suddenly disappeared. The featured experts also talk about the impact of human absence on the environment and the vestiges of civilization thus left behind.
Similar to the History Channel's special Life After People, Aftermath features what scientists and others speculate the earth, animal life, and plant life might be like if humanity no longer existed, as well as the effect that humanity's disappearance would have on the artifacts of civilization.
The researchers found correlations of human spread and species extinction indicating that the human impact was the main cause of the extinction, while climate change exacerbated the frequency of extinctions. The study, however, found an apparently low extinction rate in the fossil record of mainland Asia.
Following Joseph “Coop” Cooper (McConaughey), a farmer and former NASA test pilot, the film takes place on Earth in 2067. By this time, humans anticipate extinction due to famine, blight and ...