atavistic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes.

   “Although the heterozygote gives it an atavistic appearance, the gene is not atavistic.”

2. sıfat Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.

   “They made me feel that I was alive in the nineteenth century, a sort of atavistic remnant, a romantic shred […]”

3. sıfat Relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.