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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Is the extinction of Homo sapiens part of any of these
scenarios? The Earth has a sort of ‘self-correcting’ mechanism, you know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Bob Dickow, troublemaker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Humans Force Earth into New Geologic Epoch <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><a
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003399'>Robert Roy Britt</span></a><br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>LiveScience Managing Editor<br>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003399'>LiveScience.com</span></a>Sun Jan 27,
1:46 PM ET <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Humans have altered Earth so much that scientists say a new epoch in the
planet's geologic history has begun. <span style='color:#1F497D'><snip></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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