atavism
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Atavism Last week a loud noise was heard in the Rocky Mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
Atavism finds among them no weakened and enervated subjects on whom to perpetrate this strange travesty on nature.
From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by Weir, James
The reappearance of such ancestral traits the student of heredity designates as Reversion or Atavism.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.
Atavism is not so much the persistence of the earlier, as the absence of the later stages of psychical development.
From The Evolution of Love by Schleussner, Ellie
Atavism, the occurrence in an organism of a character abnormal in it, but normal in an ancestor, 24.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar
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