epoch

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Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge report that the human brain moves through five "major epochs" as it rewires itself from early development to late old age.

From Science Daily

Significantly, the Miocene was a nearly 18 million year epoch full of change, albeit far slower change than ours.

From Salon

What had been the backbeat of a bygone epoch, the waltz amazingly survived in the 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times

In addition to these two impacts, existing evidence suggests three smaller asteroids also hit Earth during this time -- the late Eocene epoch -- pointing to a disturbance in our solar system's asteroid belt.

From Science Daily

In its press release, the Academy said the dictionary is a “mirror of an epoch running from the 1950s up to today,” and boasts 21,000 new entries compared to the 1935 version.

From BBC