Editing Deep time (section)

=== Legacy and the future ===
Public-facing scholarship and exhibitions echo this view. The Smithsonian Human Origins Program describes deep time as a framework that helps us "understand how we arrived at our present moment and how our choices will shape the future"—placing current human behaviors in the context of long evolutionary arcs and environmental change.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Age of Humans: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Anthropocene |url=https://humanorigins.si.edu/research/age-humans-evolutionary-perspectives-anthropocene |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History}}</ref> Popular science outlets like ''Discover Magazine'' also continue to amplify this discourse, helping readers grapple with the scale and implications of deep time in an age of accelerating change.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Notion of Deep Time |url=https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-notion-of-deep-time |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Discover Magazine |language=en}}</ref>