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The 54 pages that link to Anthropocene, each with the reason it gives.

• Neolithic RevolutionRelated: Agriculture began a long expansion of human reshaping of landscapes and ecosystems.

• Geologic time scaleCompared with: Its status as a formal unit remains disputed, unlike the established Holocene.

• HoloceneCompared with: It is often framed as a successor to the Holocene, but is not a formally ratified epoch.

• Homo sapiensRelated: Human activity now alters climate, ecosystems, and geochemical cycles at planetary scale.

• AnthropologyRelated: Anthropological work connects planetary change to the unequal histories and social consequences of human activity.

• Biogeochemical cycleRelated: Human-driven changes to elemental cycles are among its defining Earth-system signals.

• SublimeRelated: The scale of human planetary impact complicates older contrasts between humanity and sublime nature.

• CenozoicCompared with: Its proposed status asks whether human impact merits a new epoch after the Holocene.

• AnthropocentrismRelated: It describes human planetary power, a condition often linked to anthropocentric priorities.

• Animal domesticationNarrower topic: Domesticated animals have helped transform ecosystems and human-driven landscapes.

• ClimateRelated: The idea frames human influence as a defining force in contemporary climate history.

• Planetary boundariesRelated: The framework measures forms of human pressure associated with this proposed epoch.

• Environmental historyRelated: It raises questions about when human environmental influence became globally transformative.

• WildernessNarrower topic: Its global human imprint unsettles the idea that any landscape is untouched.

• GeologyCompared with: Debate over its formal status tests how geological time units are defined.

• PeriodizationBroader topic: Debate over its start date exposes the stakes of naming a new period.

• Deep timeCompared with: It raises the question of whether human activity now marks strata on geological scales.

• International Commission on StratigraphyCompared with: The commission’s rejection of a formal epoch proposal shows how its standards govern recognition.

• Earth system scienceRelated: The concept frames human activity as a planetary force within coupled systems.

• DefaunationNarrower topic: Human-driven defaunation is one expression of humanity's reshaping of ecosystems.

• Holocene extinctionRelated: The extinction crisis is often cited as evidence of humanity's lasting planetary impact.

• Carl BoschRelated: Synthetic nitrogen production is a major human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle.

• EcocriticismRelated: Its contested framing raises questions about how literature represents human responsibility at planetary scale.

• QuaternaryCompared with: Debates over this proposed unit concern whether the Holocene should be subdivided.

• Climate fictionNarrower topic: Its deep-time framing informs climate fiction’s tension between human actions and planetary processes.

• Human exceptionalismRelated: It highlights the planetary consequences of human power without settling whether that power implies superiority.

• BiosphereRelated: The term frames human activity as a force reshaping the biosphere at planetary scale.

• Pleistocene megafauna extinctionCompared with: The debate asks whether prehistoric human impacts already produced a major global ecological transformation.

• History of geologyRelated: Debate over its formal status tests how geological time units are established.

• Nature (natural world)Compared with: It challenges a clean separation between human activity and planetary processes.

• Earth scienceRelated: It frames debate about whether human impacts constitute a distinct interval in Earth history.

• Gaia hypothesisCompared with: Human-driven change challenges any assumption that planetary feedbacks reliably preserve life-supporting conditions.

• Global Boundary Stratotype Section and PointCompared with: Its proposed formal boundary did not become a ratified GSSP in the geologic time scale.

• Historical ecologyNarrower topic: Historical ecology supplies deep temporal evidence for assessing the scale and duration of human impacts.

• Environmental humanitiesNarrower topic: It names the planetary-scale condition that many environmental humanities debates examine.

• Great AccelerationNarrower topic: The Great Acceleration is a central pattern used to describe the Anthropocene's planetary-scale human influence.

• Human impact on the environmentRelated: Its status remains debated, even as human influence on Earth systems is well documented.

• Subject-object distinctionRelated: Its debates question the separation of human agents from the natural world they alter.

• Late Pleistocene extinctionsCompared with: The extinctions are often treated as an early example of human reshaping of ecosystems.

• Dipesh ChakrabartyRelated: This concept frames his argument that climate change unsettles human-centered historical thought.

• Vladimir VernadskyRelated: The concept echoes Vernadsky’s claim that human activity can become a geological force.

• Big HistoryRelated: It frames humanity as a force reshaping the planet in the latest part of the story.

• Ecological anthropologyRelated: It scales questions about society-environment relations from local communities to planetary change.

• History of EarthCompared with: The proposal frames human activity as a force comparable to earlier planetary transformations.

• J. R. McNeillRelated: McNeill’s histories document the long rise of human influence on global environments.

• Natural environmentCompared with: The concept challenges a sharp separation between natural environments and human influence.

• Future of EarthRelated: Human influence may shape near-term environmental change long before solar evolution dominates.

• Geological history of EarthCompared with: Its formal status tests how geological time units are recognized and named.

• History of capitalismRelated: Historical accounts increasingly examine capitalism’s role in accelerating fossil-fuel use and ecological change.

• Holocene calendarRelated: Both concepts reconsider how human activity belongs within geological time.