An episode of atavism must have caused Lynn to be born with red hair. From LearnThat.org.
Many instances of so-called atavism are of purely morphologic nature. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Any attempt to question historical fact of Armenian Genocide can be characterized as atavism. From Wordnik.com. [Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net] Reference
You now see why the word "atavism" is used or crime. From Wordnik.com. [Looking Backward: Chapter 19] Reference
You now see why the word "atavism" is used for crime. From Wordnik.com. [Looking Backward 2000-1887] Reference
De Vries distinguishes this kind of atavism as vicinism (Lat. vicinus, neighbour), and says that it. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
First of all, and this he had previously suspected, he discovered a kind of atavism of faith in this. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2] Reference
Class politics, by contrast, was deemed a kind of atavism: reluctance by the old left to accept intellectual defeat. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference
What wonder if the nameless stir of atavism beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
The lesson taught by the law of atavism is very plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals] Reference
He was white and sick and muttered something about atavism. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
He was too decided an atavism to draw the crowd's admiration. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
Altogether a good deal of nonsense has been written about atavism. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
The phenomenon -- or law, as it is sometimes called -- of atavism, or. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Can I explain, can anyone explain, the mysterious vagaries of atavism?. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
It strikes him as a regression, an impulse of psycho-spiritual atavism. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
They could reappear in cases of atavism, such as I clearly represented. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference
The only picture -- or call it atavism if you will -- which adorned Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Was it atavism, this sinking into submission under the spell of Ciccio?. From Wordnik.com. [13 Halloweens] Reference
Of course atavism ultimately adopts many instances of revolt against its sway. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
There was no doubt that the boy was an atavism -- a throwback to the great ages. From Wordnik.com. [Against The Fall Of Night]
The atavism in Mackenzie is yet a latent characteristic of the “civilized” man. From Wordnik.com. [“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction] Reference
It helps to render intelligible many of the eccentricities of heredity, atavism, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
The ancient Keeper of the Records must have been a remarkable man, perhaps an atavism himself. From Wordnik.com. [Against The Fall Of Night]
If it were an atavism or a rudimentary organ some social surgery or other might relieve us of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
And under stress, man shows his latent animal traits — his atavism — and reverts to that state. From Wordnik.com. [“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction] Reference
A young man is haunted by a "Teutonic barbarian" atavism that struggles to dominate his personality. From Wordnik.com. [Jack London and Science Fiction] Reference
The atavism passed and he walked the room still, stopping from time to time to look at the telegram. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
I wondered if one of them might have a trace of atavism, or might humor her commander's eccentricity. From Wordnik.com. [The Forever War]
London's most explicit reference to atavism appears in his alcoholic memoirs, John Barleycorn (1913). From Wordnik.com. [THE PHILOSOPHY OF JACK LONDON] Reference
I have often been amused to see how frequently this law of atavism is either misunderstood or ignored. From Wordnik.com. [The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog] Reference
In the latter, he had shown how Buck's inherently atavism nature drew him back to an ancestral way of life. From Wordnik.com. [Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang] Reference
Some atavism had been at work in the making of him, and he had reverted to that ancestor who sturdily uplifted. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 7] Reference
What is the meaning of these words: atavism; penumbra; semaphore; astigmatic; insouciance; mise-en-scene; kinetic?. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Let the pressure be one way and we have atavism — the reversion to the wild; the other domestication, civilization. From Wordnik.com. [Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang] Reference
Mr. Spencer thinks that the non-transmission of acquired modifications is incongruous with the great fact of atavism. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
Kennedy couldn't know that the future he ceaselessly pondered would be lost to the atavism and fear he met in Houston. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Curry: Reason, Religion and Fear] Reference
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