so, by mid-Miocene (= ~15 m.y.a.),
global climate is much as today,
(though Ice Ages yet to come)
cooler; dryer;
marked latitudinal zonation
during Pliocene (~6 m.y.a.)
& Pleistocene (~2 m.y.a.)
strong, rapid climate changes
as both ice-caps grow
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