Recent
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The Holocene.
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obsoletoThe Holocene.
He [Charles Lyell] ignored Quaternary, a term he never accepted. The Recent addressed the age “tenanted by man,” which at the time barely extended beyond the chronicles of the Bible.
Etimologia
As classifier for a geological epoch coinciding with human presence (“Recent era”) introduced by Charles Lyell in 1833.
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obsoletoOf the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.