Anthropogenic

Anthropogenic ("human" + "generating") is an adjective that may refer to:

• Anthropogeny, the study of the origins of humanity

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Counterintuitively, anthropogenic may also refer to things that have been generated by humans, as follows:

• Human impact on the environment, i.e. anthropogenic impact on the environment
  • Anthropogenic biome
  • Anthropogenic climate change, human-caused global warming and its effects
  • Anthropogenic cloud
  • Anthropogenic greenhouse gases
  • Anthropogenic hazard
  • Anthropogenic metabolism