How To Use Atavism In A Sentence
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The authors consider that the distortion perhaps is atavism. Perhaps these transitions reflect the developmental process of the ovuliferous-scale in history.
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Her entire face stood out prominently, almost prognathously, an atavism that hinted of something deeply primitive in her.
THE BROKEN GOD
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There's an argument to be made that the real descendant of the piano is the keyboard synthesizer, with its limitless timbral possibilities, and that the mechanical piano is just an atavism anyways.
Key indicators
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Shanga – the going back – the radiation that caused temporary artificial atavism and let men wallow for a time in beasthood.
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Her entire face stood out prominently, almost prognathously, an atavism that hinted of something deeply primitive in her.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Her great-grandmother had been born on a soil where the broomstick is a prominent factor in settling connubial differences; and if it occurred to her at this juncture, it is a satisfactory proof of the theory of atavism.
The Village Watch-Tower
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The face is that of a Renaissance choirboy, or cupid, caught up in some act of Southern atavism.
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I have called him an atavism, but in this he was worse than an atavism, for the males of the lower animals do not maltreat and murder their mates.
CHAPTER XIV
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They serve the men who lead the commercial life, give to their sons somnambulistic educations, preach that sleep-walking is the only way to walk, and that the persons who walk otherwise are atavisms or anarchists.
The Somnambulists
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He began by apologizing for his nation's recent acts, then proceeded to summon up its spookiest atavisms.
Globe and Mail
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Her entire face stood out prominently, almost prognathously, an atavism that hinted of something deeply primitive in her.
THE BROKEN GOD
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_disuse_ during a long series of generations, its thickness is rather an illustration of atavism still resisting the effects of long-continued disuse.
Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
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The capacity of somatic cells to evolve is an atavism, as this property is lost in the transition of uni- to multicellularity.
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The capacity of somatic cells to evolve is an atavism, as this property is lost in the transition of uni- to multicellularity.
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Leichtenstern, who has collected 70 cases of polymazia in females and 22 in males, thinks that accessory breasts or nipples are due to atavism, and that our most remote inferiorly organized ancestors had many breasts, but that by constantly bearing but one child, from being polymastic, females have gradually become bimastic.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine