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William F. Ruddiman is an American paleoclimatologist and professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is best known for formulating the early Anthropocene hypothesis, published in his 2005 book "Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum," which argues that human agriculture and deforestation began rais...
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Major paleoclimate syntheses and provocative early-anthropogenic hypothesis; substantial influence alongside persistent disagreement.
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Jan Zalasiewicz is a British geologist, palaeontologist, and professor at the University of Leicester. He is best known for his leadership in modern stratigraphy as the former chair of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG). In this role, he has been a primary scientific advocate for evaluating and fo...
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Prominent Anthropocene advocate and communicator; influence high, but formal stratigraphic proposal remains contested.
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