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atavism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | reversion, throwback |
| Type of | recurrence, return |
| Derivation | atavist |
Examples of atavism
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What Nauman practices is a form of psychic primitivism, or atavism if you prefer.
From the time.com
The Taliban's blinkered atavism, for example, is abhorrent to nearly everyone else.
From the economist.com
Bibliographic codes are an anglocentric atavism and practically deprecated.
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This new notion of man as a walking atavism has ignited a caustic debate among academics.
From the economist.com
If the atavism hypothesis is correct, there are new reasons for optimism.
From the scienceblogs.com
This understanding of cancer as a limited atavism should engender optimism among oncologists.
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Certainty is a relic, an atavism, a husk we ought to have outgrown.
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Scientists believe a mutation caused the ancient trait to reassert itself as a form of atavism.
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Yet such atavism is hardly confined to Venezuelan leftists.
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- A reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- (atavistic) characteristic of an atavist
- The term atavism (derived from the Latin atavus, a great-grandfather's grandfather; more generally, an ancestor) denotes the tendency to revert to ancestral type. An atavism is an evolutionary throwback, such as traits reappearing which had disappeared generations ago. ...
- Atavism is the fifth studio album released by the American heavy metal band Slough Feg (formerly The Lord Weird Slough Feg). A vinyl edition was also produced by Forest Moon Special Products in a limited print of 500.
- The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence; Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence
- (ATAVISTIC) Recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination.
- Re-emergence of ancestral characteristics; a genetic throwback.
- [from Latin atavus ancestor] In biology, the reappearance of the characteristics of a remoter ancestor in its descendant; reversion to type; delayed heredity. ...
- A trait in an individual presumed to have been present in a past ancesto.
