(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.
Throwback
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Sadly, the position is not chosen by popular vote and so the hosting duties went to another comedy throwback, Billy Crystal.
(2) No, this isn’t a throwback to the days of ‘bumfights’, where homeless people were filmed in dangerous and humiliating situations in the name of entertainment.
(3) People want us to cheer that black actors from The Butler and 12 Years a Slave are likely to be up for best actor and actress awards, yet it feels like a throwback, almost to the Gone with the Wind era.
(4) It was a throwback to the days when some Labour politicians would refuse, on principle, to talk to the “capitalist press”.
(5) At times it felt like a throwback to those warm-up matches in Miami, with a strange flow to the game and only brief moments when the crowd were fully absorbed.
(6) As hostess – a throwback to the days when flight attendants were described that way – he has appointed Amanda Miller, his gatekeeper in the reality show The Apprentice .
(7) He added that the Scottish church should abolish at least half of its eight diocese – a throwback to the size and power of the pre-reformation church.
(8) But one throwback remains: Shoppers Supermarket, tucked into Simpson Plaza, a 1963 shopping centre that is a five-minute walk from the Kings' former home.
(9) Nothing vibed until she met Ariel Rechtshaid in 2010, the musical alchemist behind Sky Ferreira , Solange and Haim's throwback pop collages, who was then a relative unknown.
(10) The war of words between the leader and the liberal opposition has been brewing since last week, when Kadyrov told a press conference that opposition politicians should be tried as “enemies of the people”, a throwback to Stalin-era language.
(11) Those "responsible" doctors would have their names put above the beds of patients, "a practice that began being discouraged a decade ago as a throwback to the past".
(12) With bands such as the Banshees and the Bunnymen opting for lavish orchestrations, Bush now seemed less like a throwback to pre-punk times and more like a sort of posh auntie to the goths.
(13) The Beijing and Seoul governments profess to view Abe's efforts to give Japan a bigger role on the world stage, forge security and defence ties with south-east Asian neighbours, and strengthen the US alliance as intrinsically threatening – a throwback to the bad old days of Japanese imperialism.
(14) In some ways he is ultra modern, but in a more fundamental sense he is almost a throwback: proud, conservative and cautious.
(15) Which brings us to the other big rumpus of the week, caused by the new old bore on the block, Nick Kyrgios – old because his antics are also a throwback to the 1970s, to the behaviour that posed a justified threat to institutional sleepiness.
(16) It's all over Blow's delicious throwback funk and the atmospheric thump of the Crazy In Love sequel, Drunk In Love, which features Jay Z seemingly ignoring the pair's current vegan diet as he raps about how he likes Beyoncé's breasts for breakfast.
(17) The business, which has a century-long presence in the regional hub of Shepparton, is something of a throwback – not only does it sell Australian-only fruit, its suppliers come from a narrow arc of intensively farmed land adjoining its cannery.
(18) Critics of zoos have been given a prime opportunity to rehearse their view that such institutions – a throwback to the 19th century, which had a taste for both scientific classification and freak shows – are outmoded.
(19) The first is that he’s an ideological throwback, clubbing together with his “union pals” to form a “Trotskyist tribute act” that will drive Labour off a cliff.
(20) The reef part of the name is a throwback to pioneer days, when settlers were forced to detour all the way around the Waterpocket Fold, which remains all but impassible even today.