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Quaternary period

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Noun1.Quaternary period - last 2 million yearsQuaternary period - last 2 million years                
Age of Mammals, Cenozoic, Cenozoic era - approximately the last 63 million years
Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch - approximately the last 10,000 years
Pleistocene, Pleistocene epoch, Glacial epoch - from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution


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It has long been agreed that the boundary of the Quaternary Period should be placed at the first sign of global climate cooling," said Professor Philip Gibbard.
These conditions persisted with some modifications throughout the entire Quaternary Period and possibly longer (Ding et al.
Currently there is a ruckus about the Quaternary period, from 2.
 
 
 
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