atavism
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Atavism Last week a loud noise was heard in the Rocky Mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
In all these movements we see a striking illustration of what the biologists call the law of Atavism.
From Arrows of Freethought by Foote, G. W. (George William)
Atavism also is a new word, instead of family likeness, but unless carefully defined, the word is very apt to mislead us.
From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Atavism is mysteriously powerful in dogs, and it takes strange forms.
From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson
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
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Evolutionary Biology - High School
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