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Throwback   Listen
noun
throwback  n.  
1.
The reappearance in an organism of characteristics of an earlier ancestral type; atavism.
2.
An organisms having characteristics of an earlier ancestral type.





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"Throwback" Quotes from Famous Books



... industry and commerce, literature and philosophy. We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. Now to what do we owe this distinctive character? To some throwback of atavism, men tell us. Heredity, direct in one case, remote in another, hands it down to us, increased or modified by time. Search the records of the family and you will discover the source of the genius, a mere trickle at first, then a ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre


Words linked to "Throwback" :   reversion, atavism, regressive, being, recurrence


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