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Definition of Atavisms
1. atavism [n] - See also: atavism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atavisms
Literary usage of Atavisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Child: A Study in the Evolution of Man by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1902)
"The atavisms of the physiological and mental order, the so-called ' psychic
atavisms ' especially—the phenomena of the emotions, fear, anger, love present ..."
2. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (1913)
"atavisms woke in her, and she began to pore over patent medicine advertisements,
to send stamped envelopes to beauty doctors and professors of physical ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"More recently modern psychologists have found even in the most minute activities
of the child psychic atavisms ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1899)
"That they are atavisms, seems borne out by the fact that intellectual fatigue
increases such automatisms.2 That is, fatigue causes a temporary relaxation of ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Many such atavisms are distinguished, but it hardly needs to be said that they
are in many instances highly fantastic. Atavism is commonly supposed to Ъе a ..."
6. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Men and children have some psychomotor phenomena which, to say the least, admit
of interpretation as atavisms of the old aquatic life. ..."
7. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1917)
"Systematic atavisms, as shown in the leaf-bearing seedlings of the leafless
species of Acacia and analogous instances were added to these discussions. ..."
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