Pleistocene

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The average fracture frequency for the Pleistocene species she sampled came to 8% whereas for modern species it was only 2%.
她取樣的更新世物種的牙齒平均斷裂頻率達到8%，而現(xiàn)代物種只有2%。
"Pumping from the Pleistocene aquifer has certainly had an adverse effect in terms of drawing down arsenic at significantly high concentrations over about 100 years," says Burgess.
從更新世含水層抽水對于帶動砷元素的下沉毫無疑問是有不利影響的，何況向這樣抽水已經(jīng)在相當(dāng)高的強度下進行了100多年。
When we subject our Pleistocene bodies to our modern era, in which corn is cheap and animals are killed by others and safely prepared, the effect on waistlines might seem predictable.
當(dāng)我們那更新世的身體來到現(xiàn)代時代，谷物便宜、專人宰殺動物并穩(wěn)穩(wěn)當(dāng)當(dāng)為我們準備好，可以想象我們的腰圍會變得多粗了。

Phase Two, in the middle Pleistocene phase--700,000 years ago.
第二階段,在更新世的中期,約七十萬年前
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Phase One, the million and a half years ago, in the early--in the late--Miocene and early Pleistocene phases, there was shift where people were less likely to be just going out and gathering foods from every place they could find it.
第一階段,一百五十萬年前,在整個中新世以及更新世的早期,情況開始轉(zhuǎn)變,人們不光靠,出門四處搜集食物
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In my era — the Proto-Pleistocene Bowie Epoch — there was no such animal as a paid personal tutor.
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One problem with trying to reconstruct the growth of the mind from Pleistocene materials is that you would need to know what varieties of mental equipment Stone Age minds already possessed.
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from or referring to the period of time between around 1.8 million and 11,000 years ago, in which modern humans first appeared, and the Northern Hemisphere experienced an ice age

of, denoting, or formed in the first epoch of the Quaternary period, which lasted for about 1600000 years. It was characterized by extensive glaciations of the N hemisphere and the evolutionary development of man
the Pleistocene epoch or rock series

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A detailed subdivision is made in the Late Pleistocene loess-palaeosoil on Southern Loess Plateau in this paper.
本文對黃土高原南部晚更新世黃土地層作了詳細劃分。
更新統(tǒng)

更新世
In the middle Pleistocene, there were widespread lakes and swamps.
更新世中期本區(qū)湖沼廣布。