The Pleistocene and Holocene epochs have been crucial periods for understanding the evolution and extinction of various animal species in the Caribbean Islands. These periods are characterized by ...

Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold glacial cycles transitioned into the current warmer interglacial.

during the Pleistocene, for instance. Technically, the current epoch is the Holocene, but human activity has altered the world so significantly, that, with our usual species-centric perspective ...