Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface.
From two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution.
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1Thus, multicopy and single-copy genes can be analyzed from Pleistocene faunal remains.
2It was the zenith of the Late Pleistocene of the Quaternary Glaciation.
3It's been shrunk a little since the Pleistocene epoch, but not much.
4The animal world in turn was winnowed by the Pleistocene episode.
5This collection contains specimens from important and unique local Mesozoic and Pleistocene deposits.
1It's been shrunk a little since the Pleistocene epoch, but not much.
2In 1994, two independent groups extracted DNA from several Pleistocene epoch mammoths and noted differences among individual specimens.
3We designate this hominin population 'Denisovans' and suggest that it may have been widespread in Asia during the Late Pleistocene epoch.
4Admit that the banded ant-eater, at least, existed before the pleistocene epoch, and everything can be settled.
5And they belong to the Pleistocene Epoch.
1That fellow must have lived just after the last glacial epoch.
2Then follows the traditional account of some great cataclysm of the last glacial epoch.
3These three invaded us after the glacial epoch; and our general flora is their result.
4Then came the long winter of the glacial epoch-perhapsof a succession of glacial epochs.
5The Paleolithic Age was apparently terminated in Europe by the cold of the last glacial epoch.
6It is probable that the last great ice-cap of the glacial epoch nowhere reached half way to the equator.
7Then he had entered gaily the door of the glacial epoch, and had surveyed a universe of unities and uniformities.
8Suppose, for example, a return of the glacial epoch and a spread of polar climatal conditions over the whole globe.
9He was ignorant enough to think that the glacial epoch looked like a chasm between him and a uniformitarian world.
10Science teaches that man existed during the glacial epoch, which was at least fifty thousand years before the Christian era.
11Was its bed, sea or dry land, or under an ice sheet, during the long ages of the glacial epoch?
12To be sure, several skulls found in America have been supposed to belong to a time before the last glacial epoch.
13Less than a decade after his death his successor in the chair of geology at Harvard wrote that the "so-called glacial epoch .
14The two succeeding stages mark the greatest snowfall of the Glacial epoch.
15It certainly was before the Pharaohs, and perhaps before the Glacial Epoch.
16The answer is, they were stranded there at the end of the Glacial epoch.
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