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What (who) is atavism$5601$ - definition
Atavism
EVOLUTIONARY THROWBACK, SUCH AS TRAITS REAPPEARING THAT HAD DISAPPEARED GENERATIONS BEFORE
Atavistic; Evolutionary throwback; Evolutionary throwbacks; Evolutionary throw-back; Evolutionary throw-backs; Evolutionary throw back; Evolutionary throw backs; Atavisms
·noun The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.
II. Atavism ·noun 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.
atavistic
EVOLUTIONARY THROWBACK, SUCH AS TRAITS REAPPEARING THAT HAD DISAPPEARED GENERATIONS BEFORE
Atavistic; Evolutionary throwback; Evolutionary throwbacks; Evolutionary throw-back; Evolutionary throw-backs; Evolutionary throw back; Evolutionary throw backs; Atavisms
Atavistic feelings or behaviour seem to be very primitive, like the feelings or behaviour of our earliest ancestors. (FORMAL)
...an atavistic fear of snakes.
= primordial
ADJ: usu ADJ n
Atavism
EVOLUTIONARY THROWBACK, SUCH AS TRAITS REAPPEARING THAT HAD DISAPPEARED GENERATIONS BEFORE
Atavistic; Evolutionary throwback; Evolutionary throwbacks; Evolutionary throw-back; Evolutionary throw-backs; Evolutionary throw back; Evolutionary throw backs; Atavisms
In biology, an atavism is a modification of a biological structure whereby an ancestral genetic trait reappears after having been lost through evolutionary change in previous generations. Atavisms can occur in several ways; one of which is when genes for previously existing phenotypic features are preserved in DNA, and these become expressed through a mutation that either knocks out the dominant genes for the new traits or makes the old traits dominate the new one.
