atavism

They're called atavisms, and they might help us figure out evolution.

This kind of atavism needs to be eliminated at once.

The term atavism is sometimes also applied in the discussion of culture.

The word also suggests something of its character as an ironic atavism.

He was too decided an atavism to draw the crowd's admiration.

They could reappear in cases of atavism, such as I clearly represented.

Certain people, no doubt through historical atavism, would like to turn them into an inquisition process.

You are only a rich atavism, playing with the new but belonging to the old."

The most dangerous atavisms are crying, hate, love, and friendship.

On the next page, we'll look at traits that people mistakenly think are atavisms and how they might happen.

Whatever atavism may call them up, they appear and they seem to fill a need.

In our day we have progressed to a point where such sentiments mark weakness and atavism.

But this was only a momentary atavism, and he pushed it roughly away.

This is no historical curiosity, but an atavism that imperils our lives today.

Maybe it was an atavism harbored deep in my genetic matrix.

Or it may have been merely a neural atavism.

This is a spectacular case of atavism, and later convergent evolution.

He based his theory of atavism on the prevailing scientific racist theories.

Some dismiss these primitive features as recent mutations rather than atavisms.

In my Earth psychology textbooks, it is called atavism.

I even analyzed him as having an atavism deficiency.

Painting faces and tearing down goal posts was always seen as healthy atavism.

I knew it would appeal to her atavism.

A whale with legs is just one example of an atavism - they crop up more frequently than you would suppose.

Thus the possibility of reversion, of atavism, is always there.