Neogene

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Neogene

the upper part of the TERTIARY PERIOD including the Pleistocene, Pliocene and Miocene epochs.
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The field of paleontology has made extraordinary discoveries and advancements with respect to the mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of the Neogene period in Asia.
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Colleagues at the University of Minnesota identified the wood from the deposit, and pollen analysis at a commercial laboratory in Calgary, Alberta revealed that the trees lived approximately 2 to 8 million years ago, during the Neogene Period.
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There is a theory, explored here, that the Neogene period - just after the Indian subcontinent had broken off Africa and rammed into Asia, creating the Himalayan uplift - saw a massive cooling down of the earth's atmosphere, kick-starting our evolution.
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