Atavism

Definition of Atavism

At´a`vism
n.1.(Biol.) 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.
Now and then there occur cases of what physiologists call atavism, or reversion to an ancestral type of character.
- J. Fiske
2.recurrence of or reversion to a past style, outlook, approach, or manner.

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