单词 | human period |
释义 | > as lemmashuman period human period n. the period during which the genus Homo and esp. the species Homo sapiens have existed on earth. ΚΠ 1831 Eclectic Rev. 6 78 We have not yet found the certain traces of any great diluvian catastrophe which we can affirm to be within the human period. 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 901 The long succession of Pleistocene ages shaded without abrupt change of any kind into what is termed the Human or Recent Period. 1916 F. E. Clements Plant Succession xii. 193 Paleo-ecology develops its most fascinating aspect when it reaches the Human period. 1997 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 24 765/1 If Anjohibe was a remote hinterland then, as it is even today, it would not be surprising that extinct fauna survived here well into the human period. < as lemmas |
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