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Pliocene   /plˈaɪəsˌin/   Listen
Pliocene

noun
1.
From 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals.  Synonym: Pliocene epoch.





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"Pliocene" Quotes from Famous Books



... this would be done in a fraction of the Pliocene period; the Glacial shells are barely 1 per cent. extinct species. Multiply this by the older Pliocene ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin
... nevertheless, a well-established fact that, in the course of the Tertiary period, the equine quadrupeds have undergone a series of changes exactly such as the doctrine of evolution requires. Hence sound analogical reasoning justifies the expectation that, when we obtain the remains of Pliocene, Miocene, and Eocene Anthropidae, they will present us with the like series of gradations, notwithstanding the fact, if it be a fact, that the Quaternary men, like the Quaternary horses, differ in no essential respect ...
— Freedom in Science and Teaching. - from the German of Ernst Haeckel • Ernst Haeckel


Words linked to "Pliocene" :   tertiary, Tertiary period, epoch


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