Fossil record or Paleontology and Rock Record (Geology) have been hailed as foremost document of changes in past life with fossils providing the dimension of time. ... Discoveries in Paleontology, Geology with its sophisticated Isotopic Carbon dating, and DNA have their own merits. ...
"Coined by the ecologist Eugene Stoermer in the 1980s and brought to public attention in 2000 by the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen, this term represents the idea that we have entered a new epoch in Earth's geological history, one characterized by the arrival of the human species as a geological force....