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Mark Williams
Researcher at University of Leicester
Publications - 320
Citations - 15760
Mark Williams is an academic researcher from University of Leicester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ordovician & Anthropocene. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 306 publications receiving 12216 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark Williams include University of Portsmouth & British Antarctic Survey.
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The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene
Colin N. Waters,Jan Zalasiewicz,Colin Summerhayes,Anthony D. Barnosky,Clément Poirier,Agnieszka Gałuszka,Alejandro Cearreta,Matt Edgeworth,Erle C. Ellis,Michael A. Ellis,Catherine Jeandel,Reinhold Leinfelder,John Robert McNeill,Daniel Richter,Will Steffen,James P. M. Syvitski,Davor Vidas,Michael Wagreich,Mark Williams,An Zhisheng,Jacques Grinevald,Eric O. Odada,Naomi Oreskes,Alexander P. Wolfe +23 more
TL;DR: C climatic, biological, and geochemical signatures of human activity in sediments and ice cores, Combined with deposits of new materials and radionuclides, as well as human-caused modification of sedimentary processes, the Anthropocene stands alone stratigraphically as a new epoch beginning sometime in the mid–20th century.
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The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship
Will Steffen,Will Steffen,Åsa Persson,Åsa Persson,Lisa Deutsch,Jan Zalasiewicz,Mark Williams,Katherine Richardson,Carole L. Crumley,Paul J. Crutzen,Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Line Gordon,Mario J. Molina,Veerabhadran Ramanathan,Johan Rockström,Johan Rockström,Marten Scheffer,Hans Joachim Schellnhuber,Uno Svedin +19 more
TL;DR: The Anthropocene is a reminder that the Holocene, during which complex human societies have developed, has been a stable, accommodating environment and is the only state of the Earth System that the authors know for sure can support contemporary society.
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SARS-CoV-2 Omicron-B.1.1.529 leads to widespread escape from neutralizing antibody responses
Wanwisa Dejnirattisai,Jiandong Huo,D. Zhou,Jiří Zahradník,P Supasa,Changxiao Liu,Helen M. E. Duyvesteyn,Helen M. Ginn,Alexander J. Mentzer,Aekkachai Tuekprakhon,Rungtiwa Nutalai,Beibei Wang,Aiste Dijokaite,Suman Khan,Ori Avinoam,M.W. Bahar,Donal T. Skelly,S Adele,Síle A. Johnson,Thomas G Ritter,Chris Jb Mason,Christina Dold,Daniel Pan,Sara Assadi,A. Bellass,Nikki Omo-Dare,David Koeckerling,Amy Flaxman,D Jenkin,Parvinder K. Aley,Merryn Voysey,Sue Ann Costa Clemens,Felipe Gomes Naveca,Valdinete Alves do Nascimento,Fernanda Nascimento,Cristiano Fernandes da Costa,Paola Cristina Resende,Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa,Marilda M. Siqueira,Vicky L. Baillie,Natali Serafin,Gaurav Kwatra,Kelly Da Silva,Shabir A. Madhi,Marta C. Nunes,Tariq Mehmood Malik,Peter J. M. Openshaw,J Kenneth Baillie,Malcolm G Semple,Alain Townsend,Kuan-Ying A. Huang,Tiong Kit Tan,Miles W. Carroll,Paul Klenerman,Eleanor Barnes,Susanna Dunachie,Bede Constantinides,Hermione J. Webster,Derrick W. Crook,Andrew J. Pollard,Teresa Lambe,Neil G. Paterson,Mark Williams,Elizabeth E. Fry,Juthathip Mongkolsapaya,Jingshan Ren,Gideon Schreiber,David Stuart,Gavin R. Screaton +68 more
TL;DR: In this article , a new SARS-CoV-2 viral isolate Omicron-B.1.529 was announced, containing far more mutations in Spike (S) than previously reported variants, leading to a large number of mutations in the ACE2 binding site and rebalances receptor affinity to that of earlier pandemic viruses.
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Are we now living in the Anthropocene
Jan Zalasiewicz,Mark Williams,Alan Smith,Tiffany L. Barry,Angela L. Coe,Paul R. Bown,Patrick J. Brenchley,David J. Cantrill,Andrew S. Gale,Philip L. Gibbard,F. John Gregory,Mark W. Hounslow,Andrew C. Kerr,Paul Nicholas Pearson,Robert Knox,John H. Powell,Colin N. Waters,John E. A. Marshall,Michael Oates,Peter F. Rawson,Philip Stone +20 more
TL;DR: The term Anthropocene has been proposed and increasingly employed to denote the current interval of anthropogenic global environmental change as mentioned in this paper, which is considered as a formal epoch in that, since the start of the Industrial Revolution, Earth has endured changes sufficient to leave a global stratigraphic signature distinct from that of the Holocene or of previous Pleistocene interglacial phases, encompassing novel biotic, sedimentary and geochemical change.
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The new world of the Anthropocene
TL;DR: The Anthropocene, following the lost world of the Holocene, holds challenges for both science and society as mentioned in this paper, and the challenges of the Anthropocene can be summarized as follows: