![]() ![]() With these lines near the beginning of 1493, author Charles Mann sets the stage for a fascinating exploration of the dramatic, far-reaching and largely unforeseen changes that occurred in the time after this sudden linking of the world’s hemispheres, an era he calls the Homogenocene, a period - still on-going - of global homogenization of economics, ecology and humanity. … After 1492 the world’s ecosystems collided and mixed as European vessels carried thousands of spices to new homes across the oceans. ![]() Over the two divided halves of Pangaea developed wildly different suites of plants and animals. Geological forces broke up this vast expanse, splitting Eurasia and the Americas. Two hundred and fifty million years ago the world contained a single landmass known to scientists as Pangaea. ![]()
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