<a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/did-earths-anthropocene-age-of-man-begin-with-the-globalization-of-disease-in-1610/?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/03/11/blogs/dotanthropdisease/dotanthropdisease-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left" /></a>Scientists propose that Earth’s “age of humans,” the Anthropocene, began with the spread of disease in the Americas.<div><a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/did-earths-anthropocene-age-of-man-begin-with-the-globalization-of-disease-in-1610/?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss" target="_blank">Original link</a></div><div>Original author: ANDREW</div>