Having happened a short while ago.
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
Of the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.
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The Holocene.
He [Charles Lyell] ignored Quaternary, a term he never accepted. The Recent addressed the age “tenanted by man,” which at the time barely extended beyond the chronicles of the Bible.
Borrowed from Latin recēns (genitive recentis).
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