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n. The reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence, usually caused by the chance recombination of genes.

n. An individual or a part that exhibits atavism. Also called throwback.

n. The return of a trait or recurrence of previous behavior after a period of absence.

n. The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence.

n. The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.

n. Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.

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n. The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.

n. The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.

n. recurrence of or reversion to a past style, outlook, approach, or manner.

n. In biology, reversion, through the influence of heredity, to ancestral characters; resemblance exhibited by a given organism to some remote ancestor; the return to an early or original type by its modified descendants; restoration of structural characters which have been lost or obscured.

n. In pathology, the recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in remote generations.

n. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

"The term atavism is employed to express the reappearance of characters, physical or psychical, in the individual, or in the race, which are supposed to have been possessed at one time by remote ancestors."

recurrence    return   

atavist    atavistic   

throwback   

psychism    Toryism    reassertion    pangenesis    resettlement    transmissibility    0-8    leftism    pravity    passu