atavism in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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It is the atavism of our purest art....
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Driving this war was an atavism beyond other conflicts.
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Occasionally, the genes that code for longer extremities cause a modern cetacean to develop miniature legs (known as atavism).
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The title of the album: atavism, is the tendency to revert to ancestral type.
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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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It is a condition and a form of atavism which is most prevalent in male humans, and often goes untreated as it is mostly harmless.
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Down syndrome is characterized by decelerated maturation (neoteny), incomplete morphogenesis (vestigia) and atavisms.
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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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He popularized the notion of born criminal and thought that criminality was an atavism or hereditary disposition.
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Borders and national sovereignty are atavisms.
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