n. 1.【医学】隔代遗传，返祖(现象)，返祖性。 2.呈现返祖现象的人。 adj. -vistic
a reappearance of an earlier characteristic 同义词：reversion, throwback,
Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type. In biology, an atavism is an evolutionary throwback, such as traits reappearing which had disappeared generations before.
例句与用法
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They are explainable as a species of mental atavism . 这些都可以解释为一种精神的返祖现象。
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I would deal inespecial with atavism 他鼻孔里呼吸的净是阴谋诡计。
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If a child of very quirt , home - loving parents and grandparents should display the love of travel and adventure that had characterized a sea - captain ancestor , it would be called a case of atavism 如果父母及祖父母都是很安静而好家居的，孩子表现了一位当过船长的祖先的特点，好旅行探险，这就可以说是一个隔代遗传的例子。
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Another possible explanation for rococo genetic systems is atavism , in which some biological mechanisms revert back to an ancestral state , although presumably with modification , in a new , derived genetic background 有关旧式遗传学系统的另一个可能的解释是隔代遗传，在此过程中一些生物学机制恢复到一种原始生物才有的状态，尽管该状态可能会在一种新的衍生遗传学背景下发生改变。
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King kong connects our origins in the swamp with our ambition to reconquer heaven by building towers of babel ; it is about atavism and aspiration , and , when the monster starts to fancy his screaming female captive , it forces us to rethink the divisions we have made between animal , man and god 金刚连结了我们在泥沼中的起源，和建造巴别塔再次征服天堂的野心；这是关于返祖现象和抱负，以及，当怪兽开始迷恋?尖叫的女囚， ?逼迫我们再次思考我们在动物、人与神之间制造的区别。
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