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Quaternary period   /kwˈɑtərnˌɛri pˈɪriəd/   Listen
Quaternary period

noun
1.
Last 2 million years.  Synonyms: Age of Man, Quaternary.





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... known in science by the name of Pithecanthropus, which means the ape-man. Whether we look upon this fossil as a serious find or not, it is very certain that in the caves of Europe belonging to the Quaternary period we find abundant evidences of primitive man. The older these evidences are, the more likely they are to be distinctly below the grade of man of to-day, in the size and shape of the brain case and in the length and ...
— The Meaning of Evolution • Samuel Christian Schmucker
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Words linked to "Quaternary period" :   Pleistocene epoch, Age of Mammals, Holocene epoch, glacial epoch, Cenozoic, Recent epoch, recent, geological period, period, Pleistocene, Holocene, Cenozoic era


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