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Meanings of Pleistocene in English
Portuguese
pleistoceno Catalan
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 epoch"
Examples for "Pleistocene epoch"
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It's been shrunk a little since the Pleistocene epoch, but not much.
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In 1994, two independent groups extracted DNA from several Pleistocene epoch mammoths and noted differences among individual specimens.
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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.
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Admit that the banded ant-eater, at least, existed before the pleistocene epoch, and everything can be settled.
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And they belong to the Pleistocene Epoch.
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The two succeeding stages mark the greatest snowfall of the Glacial epoch.
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The answer is, they were stranded there at the end of the Glacial epoch.
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The distribution of species in the Glacial epoch was far different from that of the present.
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It is a bit of preglacial landscape, showing the condition of the entire region before the Glacial epoch.
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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.
Usage of Pleistocene in English
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Thus, multicopy and single-copy genes can be analyzed from Pleistocene faunal remains.
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It was the zenith of the Late Pleistocene of the Quaternary Glaciation.
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It's been shrunk a little since the Pleistocene epoch, but not much.
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The animal world in turn was winnowed by the Pleistocene episode.
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This collection contains specimens from important and unique local Mesozoic and Pleistocene deposits.
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Uplift and erosion to lower Pleistocene baselevel; deposition of low-level Columbia.
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In typical Antipodean fashion, the Pleistocene mammals of Australia were different.
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Nicholas and Saint-Germain think the mammoth bones mean the Pleistocene era.
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Large collection with strengths in local Triassic, Jurassic and Pleistocene fossils.
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Uplift, warping and erosion to Pleistocene baselevel; deposition of high-level Columbia.
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The period between the Miocene and the Pleistocene is known as the Pliocene.
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Divergence of most species occurred from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene.
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Well, it didn't get much more exotic than the Pleistocene era, did it?
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Above us hung a beluga whale, casualty of some Pleistocene misfortune.
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Aside from the woolly mammoth, no Pleistocene creature is more iconic than Smilodon.
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Over there, shrimp dip molded to form Pleistocene fish, with black caviar skeleton.
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Pleistocene through the time