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Revision as of 03:21, 9 January 2016

Englisch

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:affix/templates at line 38: The |lang= parameter is not used by this template. Place the language code in parameter 1 instead., from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) atavisme, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) atavus, from (deprecated template usage) at + (deprecated template usage) avus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

atavistic (comparative more atavistic, superlative most atavistic)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (biology) of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes.
    • 1889, U.S. Office of Experiment Stations, Experiment Station Record
      Although the heterozygote gives it an atavistic appearance, the gene is not atavistic.
    • 1946, Reginald Ruggles Gates, Human genetics
      Thus the gene which produced atavistic digits in the vigorous heterozygous pentadactyl condition is a lethal monster in the homozygous condition.
    • 2006, Roger E Stevenson, Judith G Hall, Human malformations and related anomalies
      Reactivation of a dormant atavistic gene could account for the abnormal costocoracoid ligament in humans.
  2. of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.
    • 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
      They made me feel that I was alive in the nineteenth century, a sort of atavistic remnant, a romantic shred…
    • 1979, Norman Spinrad, A world between
      The true perversion took place only in the privacy of her mind — the way she imagined an atavistic macho atop her when engaged in a mandatory contribution to the fetus-banks with some cretinous inept breeder…
    • 2000, Steven Heller, Marshall Arisman, The education of an illustrator
      Because I am atavistic enough to believe that drawing is the basic language of the illustrator, even as words comprise the basic language of the writer…
  3. relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.

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