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Pleistocene Epoch
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Also Known As newer Pliocene Epoch

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Wisconsin glaciation
cave lion
seafloor spreading
geologic time
Quaternary Period in geologic time
Anthropocene Epoch
Will cloning bring the woolly mammoth back to life?
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Key People

Penck, Albrecht
Albrecht Penck
geographer
Zittel, Karl Alfred, Ritter von
Karl Alfred, knight von Zittel
German paleontologist
Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist
Loren Eiseley
American anthropologist