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The adjective "recent" stands for present or recently past states or events.

Word origin and meaning
The word recent comes from the Latin for “just, recently, fresh.” It was in this sense until the 19th century. century foreign word of the general language, just like today's English and 'last, recently, recently, recently' (for the German "rezent" would stand in English rather "extant").

Today it is only technically in use:
in the context of the development of earth and life, culture and the like for processes and phenomena which occur in the present time or have occurred up to the recent or recent past,
in the scientific language generally in the sense of “fresh” (recent tracks, recent traces of archaeological finds and similar),
in general medicine for recent infections and injuries; in psychoanalysis for recent mental impressions,
in the pharmacy for freshly prepared preparations (recenter paratum),
culinary, especially in the context of cheese, it means spicy, spicy, hearty or strong.

Biology
In biology, the term “living in the present day or recently extinct.” Recent species are thus all those that occur in the geological present, the Holocene (starting almost 12,000 years ago to the present time), or died out during this time. Those species that died out before or during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene are called fossils. The limit of almost 12,000 years is only a guideline, since the extinction event lasted several thousand years during the climate change on the border from the Pleistocene to the Holocene (during the last ice age) and geographically did not take place equally quickly everywhere. Often, therefore, an age of 10,000 years is indicated for the limit of fossil to recent.

Example: Recent representatives of the proboscidea are African elephant (Loxodonta africana), forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), various elephants, such as Cyprus dwarf elephant (Elephas cypriotes, up to about 9500 BC), as well as Elephas celebensis (extinct, perhaps still alive on Borneo as Borneo dwarf elephant), but also woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius, up to about 2000 BC), American mastodon (Mammut americanum, up to about 7000 BC) and some stegodontes (Flores 10,000 BC).

Geosciences
In geology, the term refers to “being present or formed under present conditions.” The opposite is – as in biology – the term fossil, which refers to the ancient. For the border area, which is to be placed in the time of the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene (about 12,000 years ago, i.e. towards the end of the last ice age), the terms subr