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from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the time of the existence of man; belonging to those recent geologic formations which have been deposited since the appearance of man upon the earth.
- noun [capitalized] The final member in the series Azoic, Eozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoio, Cænozoic, Anthropozoic, or Psychozoic.
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Terms like the “psychozoic era,” “anthropozoic era,” and “the mental era” were used to characterize this new geo - logical period, anticipating the thesis of Edouard Le
ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE CLARENCE J. GLACKEN 1968
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V. Anthropolithic or anthropozoic (quaternary) age: 0: 5.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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V. Anthropolithic group, or anthropozoic (quaternary) group of strata
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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V. Anthropolithic group, or anthropozoic (quaternary) group of strata
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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V. Anthropolithic group, or anthropozoic (quaternary) group of strata
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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V. Anthropolithic group, or anthropozoic (quaternary) group of strata
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Others believe that man properly so-called -- man endowed with speech -- was not evolved from the non-speaking ape-man (Pithecanthropus) until the following, the anthropozoic, age.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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However, this much is certain: the development of civilisation falls in the anthropozoic age, and this is merely an insignificant fraction of the vast period of the whole history of life.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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