Homogocene

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  1. 1
    The current ecological era marked by anthropogenic biotic homogenization, having begun c. 1500 CE.

    "The new shrunken natural world of the Homogocene will have a depressed speciation rate curve that will cost it species diversity in direct proportion to its loss of area."

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"The new shrunken natural world of the Homogocene will have a depressed speciation rate curve that will cost it species diversity in direct proportion to its loss of area."

Etymology

Coined by American ornithologist and ecologist Gordon Orians, apparently from homogenous + -cene.

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