Information om | Engelska ordet ATAVISM

Exempel på hur man kan använda ATAVISM i en mening

• In biology, an atavism is a modification of a biological structure whereby an ancestral genetic trait reappears after having been lost through evolutionary change in previous generations.
• Waylon Jones was born with a rare form of atavism that imparted him with reptilian traits with his birth causing the death of his mother.
• And answers that Andrić "has for the umpteenth time been hijacked, misused, maltreated, humiliated, and brutally raped" before imagining Andrić "a slight, physically feeble, and restrained man without a shred of Ottoman or Balkan atavism in him, 'tender and white with a painfully-thin fragrant soul'" yielding to "Kusturica's brutal appearance featuring greasy hair, withered highland never quite cleanshaven face, neurotic wrinkle in the base of the nose, and a suspicious gaze".
• Other characters include the hominid's father, a love interest, and Red-Eye, a fierce "atavism" that perpetually terrorizes the Cave People.
• At the end of Infinity's Shore, a small group of neodolphins are left on Jijo, those suffering from "stress atavism", a condition wherein the subject reverts to a more primitive state similar to non-uplifted dolphins, as well as medical personnel to oversee them, and others deemed non-essential to Streakers desperate final mission.
• In her preface to Suite française, she lists for the record the commonplaces that fall from Irène Némirovsky's pen in her "Jewish" novels: numerous and unpleasant physical characteristics, character traits such as pugnacity but also hysteria, atavism of greed or commercial skill, simplistically opposed types (the well-assimilated rich man and the miserable man thirsty for success), etc.

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