Meanings (ES + gloss)
atavismo
The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
He was a magnificent atavism, a man so purely primitive that he was of the type that came into the world before the development of the moral nature. He was not immoral, but merely…
Hence on false premises was built up that belief in spirits or invisible beings outside ourselves, which by some curious atavism was re-emerging in modern days among the less educa…
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