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interglacial
A long, period of warmer conditions between glacials when the earth's glaciers have shrunk to a smaller area. Interglacials during the Pleistocene Epoch lasted 10's of thousands of years. We are probably in an interglacial at present.
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- Branche/domæne: Anthropology
- Category: Physical anthropology
- Company: Palomar College
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