IT IS THE LAST EPOCH OF THE QUATERNARY PERIOD OF CENOZOIC ERA AND IS THE CURRENT EPOCH OF THE PHANEROZOIC EON .SARTING AT THE END OF PLIESTOCENE EPOCH IS CONTINOUSLY GOING ON NOW WE WRE LIVING IN THIS AGE OF MAN AND COINCIDES WITH NEOLITHIC AGE OF OUR PREHISTORY .

1. Trials & Tribulations Chapter 17.2 Quaternary 1
Holoceneepoch
Conquest of space
NASA images ‘ Blue marble’ by Apollo 17 mission
Reto stockli ,Robert simmon – Wc-Public domain
Destruction of Earth’s flora & fauna
Amazon rain forest Fires in amazon forest
Gabriel de oliveira – phys.org Doug Morton – nasa.gov

2. Trials & Tribulations 2
Dodo now Dead ( extinct ) Passenger pigeon
Roelant savery – Wc – Public domain Louis A Furtes .Wc.Public domain
Hunting of passenger pigeon flocks
Smith Bennet - Wc – Public domain

3. Trials & Tribulations 3
The age of Man
It is the recent age
continuingtill date
an age of Homosapiens
dominatedby sapiensapiens
It began with the onset of warming
towards the end of Pleistocene
after the extinctionof megafauna
in the last glaciationphase
How flora and faunafaced
several glaciations of last epoch
and many of them survived
to flourish in the presentage ?
is something of a naturalwonder ,
theoriesand scientificinvestigations
apart ,is reallya mysterytilldate
if you ask me ,believeit or not, I state

4. Trials & Tribulations 4
The greatest curiosity naturally
is about our own species
as homo sapiensapiens
neitherbecamegiantsnor woolly
They did not becomeeven like their
cousins-Gorillasor chimpanzees
They ofcoursebecamemorebrainy
and startedinventingnew ways
Hominins as such had started
making toolsin the old stoneage
and earlyHomos likehabilisand
erectus carriedit further ahead
Homo erectus discovered control
and use of firewhereas the successor
Heidelbergensis and Neanderthals
clothes weapons and ways for shikar

5. Trials & Tribulations 5
Homosapienscontinuedto advance
and theirNeolithic age coincides
with beginning of thisHolocene age
and development of early civilisations
Post Neolithicit is not evolution
of flora and fauna but social
culturaland educational advance
of Man which attracts our attention.
Developmentof agriculture
industryand new inventions
are part of our Historyand
so also wars amongstourselves
Brainychaps we are but are we really
wise ?althoughwe call ourselves so
sapiensapien specieswise, for we are
makingdifficultour own survival here

6. Trials & Tribulations 6
We have touched moon
and may land on mars soon
but on earth we have caused havoc
playing with flora and fauna speciation
Passengerpigeon is dead as dodo
Biodiversityhas declined dangerously
Tropicalforests are beingdestroyed
CO2 level and sea level are rising
A question is bothering all wise men
Are we on the verge of VI great extinction ?
And by our wise or not so wise acts
Invitingtrouble, ensuring it comes earlier
Meanwhile Naturecontinues with its
style; heapingTrialsand Tribulations
on us in the form of volcanos,coronas,
sunamis, earth quakes and tufans.

7. Trials & Tribulations 7
And it is for all forms of life
to willy nilly face them & somehow
survive;LuckilyLife’s resilience
keeps our hopes alive .
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