When we subject our pleistocene bodies to our modern era , in which corn is cheap and animals are killed by others and safely prepared , the effect on waistlines might seem predictable .
That 's in part because while pleistocene men could pick their mates on the basis of fertility cues discernible at a glance pleistocene women faced a more vexing problem .
Pleistocene glaciers further accelerated this process and the larger ones transported the resulting talus and till from valley floors .
更新世冰川进一步加速了这一过程,更大的冰川运送了由此而产生的谷底岩屑堆和冰碛物。
The average fracture frequency for the pleistocene species she sampled came to 8 % whereas for modern species it was only 2 % .
她取样的更新世物种的牙齿平均断裂频率达到8%,而现代物种只有2%。
It is thought that women in the pleistocene may have spent about half of their fertile years lactating , far more than is typical today .
人们认为更新世时期的女人花自己生育期的一半时间来分泌乳汁,远多于如今的女性。
What 's more , the pleistocene ice age set in around 1.6 million years ago and even in africa the nights would have been chilly .
此外,大约在一百六十万年前,更新世的冰河时代来临,即使在非洲夜晚也寒冷刺骨。
Macdougall points out that we can now more effectively assess how the climate system might respond to future perturbations based on insights into the operation of earth 's climate system during the pleistocene ice age .
But if people in the bengal basin continue to exploit their water supplies at the current rates , arsenic-laden water from the upper layers may find its way into pleistocene aquifers , the study suggests .