atavism in the PONS Dictionary

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It is the atavism of our purest art....
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Atavism can also be seen in humans who possess large teeth, like those of other primates.
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In the social sciences, atavism is a cultural tendencyfor example, people in the modern era reverting to the ways of thinking and acting of a former time.
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Both the brains and skulls of criminals demonstrated evidence of atavism; in other words, criminals were evolutionary throwbacks, no less, and their skulls and faces bore the signs of degeneration.
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Acts of genuine creativity out of the ordinary people's experience were regarded then as retreat into atavism.
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Borders and national sovereignty are atavisms.
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Driving this war was an atavism beyond other conflicts.
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When discussing corporal punishment among black people, people often say that "whuppings" are a kind of atavism from slavery.
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Hints of long-extinct creatures, echoes of evolution past, occasionally emerge in real life -- they're called atavisms, rare cases of individuals born with characteristic features of their evolutionary antecedents.
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Occasionally, the genes that code for longer extremities cause a modern whale to develop miniature legs (known as atavism).
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