| Changes to the Earth by human activities have been so great that a new geological epoch named the Anthropocene has been proposed.[48] The human niche or ecological polis of human society, as it was known historically, has created entirely new arrangements of ecosystems as we convert matter into technology. Human ecology has created anthropogenic biomes (called anthromes).[49] The habitats within these anthromes reach out through our road networks to create what has been called technoecosystems containing technosols. Technodiversity exists within these technoecosystems.[5][50] In direct parallel to the concept of the ecosphere, human civilization has also created a technosphere.[51][52][53][54] The way that the human species engineers or constructs technodiversity into the environment, threads back into the processes of cultural and biological evolution, including the human economy.[55][56] |
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