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Awl doze thesaurusii theosoreeye, mebbee? whir stinkd bai teh pliocene!
Itty bitty kitty comitte boat sinked. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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‘Homo sapiens’ pliocene or miocene, or yet more ancient?
Essays 2007
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The pliocene mammals are like the existing ones, because such was the plan of creation; and we find rudimental organs and similarity of plan, because it has pleased the Creator to set before Himself a
Essays 2007
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Did no opposing traditions stand in the way, we are quite sure the evidence elicited from this examination would at once fix its character as a burial place, of an antiquity coeval with the existence of the great extinct mammalia of the post-pliocene period.
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Sir Charles Lyell clearly establishes the fact that _Elephas primigenius_, _Elephas antiquus_, _Rhinoceros tichorrhinus_, _Ursus speloeus_, and other extinct species of the post-pliocene alluvium,
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We are in the transition-stage from the miocene to the pliocene period of human existence.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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I suppose the continent has gone to make another layer, a stratum, on top of the pliocene, and after awhile the waters will subside, or some volcanic action will raise up
The Master-Knot of Human Fate Ellis Meredith
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The action of the elements during subsequent ages has worn away in great part the banks of the pliocene river and eroded in places the solid slate rocks to the depth of two thousand feet, leaving this sinuous wall as a mute witness of the mighty forces of nature.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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Over in the Picket Post Mountains, if you please, I have seen misty island-like protuberances, resembling greatly the post-pliocene crannoges of the Roscommon loughs.
Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail or, The Fugitive Professor Burt L. Standish 1905
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It is not impossible that the latter species, which appear generically identical, are the descendants of more distinct pliocene types, as the persistent tendency in all the earlier forms was in the same direction.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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