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atavism
1. Jump forward more than one hundred years, and this brings us to the dysfunctional present—where crime and insecurity, conflict and atavism, have replaced peace and security, cooperation and stability
2. He popularized the notion of "born criminal" and thought that criminality was an atavism or hereditary disposition
3. I would deal in especial with atavism
4. It was after tea on a summer evening, and the conversation, which had roamed in a desultory, spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic, came round at last to the question of atavism and hereditary aptitudes
5. The simple directness of barbaric virtues, the healthy passion and aggressiveness of its vices make the process of atavism easy to a nature that has risen above the mere materialism of civilization