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Age of Man

[′āj əv ′man]
(geology)
An informal designation of the Quaternary period of geologic time.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Shakesepeare describes this final age of man as ``second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans everything.
Shakespeare describes this age of man as having ``spectacles on nose, pouch on side, shrunk shank and whistles in his sound.
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