2018/12/13 by Pablo José Francisco Pena Rodrigues, Pablo J. F. Pena Rodrigues, Rodrigues, Pablo J. F. Pena +2
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Anthropocene #Biodiversity #Biological evolution #Biology #Biota #Climate Change Communication and Perception #Dominance (genetics) #Ecology #Ecosystem #FOS: Biological sciences #Geography #Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems #Novelty #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE) #Species Distribution and Climate Change #q-bio.PE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1812.05662
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · 24 pages, 1 figure
arxiv created 2018/12/13 · openalex publication_date 2018/12/13 · arxiv updated 2018/12/17 · openalex created_date 2018/12/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Anthropogenic changes of the biota and human hyper-dominance are modulating the evolution of life on our planet. Humankind has spread worldwide supported by cultural and technological knowledge, and has already modified uncountable biological interactions. While numerous species have been extinguished by human actions, others are directly favored, such as alien species, hybrids, and genetically modified organisms. These biodiversity shifts have generated new interactions among all living organisms in anthropized or anthropogenic ecosystems, with the consequent establishment of novel evolutionary pathways. Thus, humans have created a strong evolutionary bias on Earth, leading to unexpected and irreversible outcomes. Anthropogenic changes and novelty organisms are shifting the evolutionary paths of all organisms towards the Biological Anthropocene, a new concept of our imprint on biodiversity and evolution.