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Noun: Pleistocene epoch
  1. From two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the Northern Hemisphere; the time of human evolution
    - Pleistocene, Glacial epoch

Type of: epoch

Part of: Age of Man, Quaternary, Quaternary period

Encyclopedia: Pleistocene epoch