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Letter: End of an era

Published 5 April 2017

From Brian Cordon, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, UK

F. White suggests we should leave the naming of the new geological period to whoever inhabits it (Letters 18 March). I have thought for many years that we humans are presently living in the Endoscene period.

Issue no. 3120 published 8 April 2017

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