Atavism

  • 31reversie — REVÉRSIE, reversii, s.f. 1. (livr.) Întoarcere la o stare anterioară (mai puţin evoluată). 2. (med.) Atavism. – Din fr. réversion. Trimis de LauraGellner, 08.07.2004. Sursa: DEX 98  REVÉRSIE s. (biol.) atavism. Trimis de siveco, 05.08.2004.… …

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  • 32Italian school of criminology — The Italian school of criminology was founded at the end of the 19th century by Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909) and two of his Italian disciples, Enrico Ferri (1856–1929) and Raffaele Garofalo (1851–1934). Lombroso s conception of the atavistic born… …

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  • 33reversion — 1 return, recurrence, recrudescence (see under RETURN vb) 2 Reversion, atavism, throwback are comparable when they mean return to an ancestral type or an instance of such return. The same distinctions in implications and connotations are evident… …

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  • 35atavistic — pertaining to atavism, 1847; see ATAVISM (Cf. atavism) + IC (Cf. ic) …

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  • 36atavist — noun an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism • Syn: ↑throwback • Derivationally related forms: ↑atavistic, ↑atavism • Hypernyms: ↑organism, ↑being * * * və̇st …

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  • 37throwback — I noun 1. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic • Syn: ↑atavism, ↑reversion • Derivationally related forms: ↑atavist (for: ↑atavism) • …

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  • 38at´a|vis´ti|cal|ly — at|a|vis|tic «AT uh VIHS tihk», adjective. 1. having to do with atavism. 2. having a tendency to atavism. 3. characterized by atavism: »It is evident that all animals are ultimately from one primal source. The appearance in the embryo of… …

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  • 39at|a|vis|tic — «AT uh VIHS tihk», adjective. 1. having to do with atavism. 2. having a tendency to atavism. 3. characterized by atavism: »It is evident that all animals are ultimately from one primal source. The appearance in the embryo of atavistic survivals… …

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  • 40Pangenesis — was Charles Darwin s hypothetical mechanism for heredity. He presented this provisional hypothesis in his 1868 work The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication and felt that it brought together a multitude of facts which are at… …

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