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Pleistocene   /plˈaɪstəsˌin/   Listen
Pleistocene

noun
1.
From two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution.  Synonyms: Glacial epoch, Pleistocene epoch.



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"Pleistocene" Quotes from Famous Books



... like kind and degree. For my fear is the fear of long ago, the fear that was rampant in the Younger World, and in the youth of the Younger World. In short, the fear that reigned supreme in that period known as the Mid-Pleistocene. ...
— Before Adam • Jack London
... by Mr. R. Lydekker, published in the 'Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' vol. xlix., 1880, will be found the names of eight species of fossil rhinoceros, inclusive of R. Indicus, which is found in recent alluvia—it is found with two others in the Pleistocene formation, and five others are from ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale
... or anthropozoic (quaternary) group of strata : XIII. Pleistocene (diluvium) : 36. ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.2 • Ernst Haeckel


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