Naming a New Geological Era: The Ecozoic Era, Its Meaning and Historical Antecedents

Naming a New Geological Era: The Ecozoic Era, Its Meaning and Historical Antecedents

. Introduction The universe gropes its way forward in fits and starts, progress- ing by trial and error through a multiplicity of attempts and ef- forts, moving in many directions as it looks for a breakthrough to leap forward in evolution and consciousness.1 This is how Jesuit paleon- tologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin described evolutionary…