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Meanings of Pleistocene epoch in English

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pleistoceno
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època glacial

From two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution.

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        Examples for "Pleistocene"
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        Thus, multicopy and single-copy genes can be analyzed from Pleistocene faunal remains.
        Pubmed
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        It was the zenith of the Late Pleistocene of the Quaternary Glaciation.
        Devourer
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        It's been shrunk a little since the Pleistocene epoch, but not much.
        The Guardian
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        The animal world in turn was winnowed by the Pleistocene episode.
        The Story of Evolution
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        This collection contains specimens from important and unique local Mesozoic and Pleistocene deposits.
        The Guardian
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        The two succeeding stages mark the greatest snowfall of the Glacial epoch.
        The Elements of Geology
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        The answer is, they were stranded there at the end of the Glacial epoch.
        Science in Arcady
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        The distribution of species in the Glacial epoch was far different from that of the present.
        The Elements of Geology
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        It is a bit of preglacial landscape, showing the condition of the entire region before the Glacial epoch.
        The Elements of Geology
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        I quite agree with what you say of almost certainty of Glacial epoch having destroyed the Spanish saxifrages, etc., in Ireland.
        More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
        Usage of Pleistocene epoch in English
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        It's been shrunk a little since the Pleistocene epoch, but not much.
        The Guardian
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        In 1994, two independent groups extracted DNA from several Pleistocene epoch mammoths and noted differences among individual specimens.
        Pubmed
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        We designate this hominin population 'Denisovans' and suggest that it may have been widespread in Asia during the Late Pleistocene epoch.
        Pubmed
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        Admit that the banded ant-eater, at least, existed before the pleistocene epoch, and everything can be settled.
        Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
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        And they belong to the Pleistocene Epoch.
        The Sorceress
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        The first discovery These trackways date from a time in the Pleistocene Epoch, when our species, Homo sapiens, was emerging.
        The South African
        Translations for Pleistocene epoch
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