atavism

7 letters in word "atavism": A A I M S T V.

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Words found within atavism:

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• Definitions:
• A tendency to reproduce ancestral type in plants and in animals; to resemble one's grandparents or great-grandparents more than parents. ...
• [from Latin atavus ancestor] In biology, the reappearance of the characteristics of a remoter ancestor in its descendant; reversion to type; delayed heredity. ...
• a theory of criminal behavior which postulates that criminality diminishes in the evolutionary development of humanity and that its appearance as a biological predilection in some persons is a hereditary throwback on the evolutionary scale.
• An atavism is a trait in an individual presumed to have been present in a past ancestor. Juvenile white-bellied caiques almost always have black feathers on their heads that after one or two molts are replaced with the apricot feathers that we see in adults. ...
• a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
• An atavism can mean an organism that is a real or supposed evolutionary throwback; the unexpected appearance of primitive traits; or a reversion to or reappearance of a trait that had been present in a lineage in the past, but which had been absent in intervening generations. ...

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