(n.) 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.
(n.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.
Example Sentences:
(1) Down syndrome impresses us as a paradigm of increased developmental variability due to a deceleration of the rate of development (neoteny) with many anomalies of incomplete morphogenesis (vestigia), atavisms, increased morphometric variability with many decreased means, increased variances, and increased fluctuating asymmetry.
(2) Through herd mentality, or pure atavism, the leaderless state was drawn back to its one familiar point of reference, the tribal system of its ancestors, and with it the full force of its legacy: a return to the hatred of the past, to intractable rivalries, violent raids and an unquenchable thirst for vengeance.
(3) A varimax rotated factor analysis of the ATAV yielded one primary factor accounting for 85.9% of the variance.
(4) In the analysis of laryngeal anomalies in 30 selected phoniatric patients by CT examination, 2 atavisms of the laryngeal skeleton were found.
(5) Results showed slight but significant correlations between the ATAV and F (r = .17, p less than .044) and Formal Content of Dogmatism (r = .20, p less than .023) Scales for the United States sample.
(6) The recurrence of CK-BB may indicate atavism, and the enhanced anaerobic glycolysis and the accelerated energetic turnover may be on of the metabolic characteristics of leukemic cell.
(7) The survey instrument included the 20-item Attitudes Toward AIDS Victims (ATAV) Scale, the 18-item F Scale, the Form A, and 14-item Formal Content of Dogmatism Scale.
(8) The presence of Purkinje-like cells in ectopic locations within the heart and their association with satellite cells is likely a form of embryological atavism.
(9) Atavisms of responding have been observed to play an essential role in real perversions.
(10) Presence of these normally vestigial structures is considered a form of atavism.
(11) The following phases yielded significant correlations between the ATAV scale and attitudes toward homosexuals (.60, p less than .001), homosexual parenting (.64, p less than .001), other minority groups (.33, .37, p less than .001), capital punishment (-.27 p less than .001), and sexually liberal attitudes (.22, .37, .23, p, less than .025).
(12) The dynamic phenomena (such as homodynamy, coadaptation, parallel evolution, orthogenesis, Cartesian transformation, typostrophy, hetermorphosis, systemic mutation, and spontaneous atavism) have no causal explanation, although they are responsible for all directed phenomena in macroevolution.
(13) The persisting alpha-fetoprotein synthesis in ataxia-telangiectasia, the morphologic atavisms in Down or trisomy 13 syndromes, and the delayed growth or fetal to adult hemoglobin switch in diabetic embryopathy all exemplify developmental asynchrony.
(14) The authors propose the term atavistic to designate a gene producing an ancestral phenotype (atavism).
(15) And instead of being a temporary festivity, the ornaments of new nationhood – all those recomposed national anthems and redesigned banknotes, postage stamps and ceremonial uniforms – were hardening into real statehoods with real borders, inspired not by universal enlightenment values, but by the atavisms of ancient religious and ethnic conflicts.
(16) This study reports on the development of a Likert scale that measures attitudes toward AIDS victims (ATAV) in five phases.
Primitivism
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Primitivization of emotional expressions on human faces also occurred.
(2) Lending support to this proposition, the results revealed a pattern of emotional range--value associations that challenge the prevailing view of emotionality as intimately linked with primitivism and impulsivity.
(3) The use of traditional African sculptures by cubists such as Pablo Picasso later helped change attitudes towards African art labelled "primitivism", although dubious attitudes have lingered among artistic elites.
(4) Hence, primitivization of the subjects' cognitive and linguistic functioning is assumed to have occurred.
(5) And I was part of that pact of silence: it was a condition of the treaty that gave me my equality, that I would not invoke the primitivism of the mother, her innate superiority, that voodoo in the face of which the mechanism of equal rights breaks down.
(6) Some excursi are joined relative to the conditions of discovery of pre-historic art, to the relationship between modern art and child "primitivism", and to the themes of child drawings within cartoons.
(7) We concluded that stress produced code-switching, and hence, a primitivization of the subject's cognitive and linguistic functioning is assumed to have occurred.