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The term "Anthropocene" comes from the Greek for human, "anthropo".

Some have proposed calling our current geological age the "Anthropocene," derived from the Greek word "anthropo" for "human."

In 2019, they reached agreement: If you’re alive now you live in the Anthropocene — a geologic epoch incorporating humans in its very definition: “Anthropo,” as in anthropology, meaning “human”; and “cene,” as in so many recent geologic epochs — Miocene, Pleistocene — meaning “recent” or “new.”

“There is a feeling among the archaeologists that because the word ‘anthropo’ is in there, their science should be central,” one geologist complained to me privately.

“Anthropo,” from the Greek word for human, also is part of the show’s title.