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Learn about life through time... Quaternary

The Quaternary period (2 MYA - present day), being the most recent, is the best understood. During this period the positions of the continents have remained basically the same, while the climate had fluctuated between warm spells and a series of ice ages. The world is currently enjoying a warm, interglacial climate.

The human species has grown and developed throughout this time from a small population in Africa to more than six billion individuals around the world today.

The Quaternary is sometimes divided into two smaller periods. The Holocene extends from now back 10,000 years, preceded by the Pleistocene.

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