atavist

• “Your smug authorship style is intended to impart upon me that you know it all, I am just an atavist fool.”

  Discourse.net: Minimal Human Decency Abridged

• “Conservatives are to busy going to work and making sinful profits to spend time at a conference to learn how to become a better online atavist.”

  Liberal bloggers admit conservatives have upper hand on Twitter

• “It's a mistake to think that privacy is an individualist or atavist right," Rotenberg said.”

  Wired: Brave New Era for Privacy Fight

• “An atavist of the days of blind chivalry he was, a knight errant in the somber clothes of a fanatic.”

  The Moon of Skulls

• “He could be an atavist, a victim of unconscious regression.”

  Strange Alliance

• “It puts to death with the same ruthless equality the prophet and the atavist.”

  The Joyful Heart

• “Of two hundred seeds one became a blue atavist, or rather vicinist, while all others remained true to the white type.”

  Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

• “[2] Relating to old or established pattern; habitual, ingrained [3] (as a noun) an atavist is a genetic characteristic emerging after absence from several generations (see Wikipedia entry for a more detailed explanation).”

  Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed

• “But Jesse Helms was so rooted in his atavist traditions, he chose to remain true to his misogyny rather than pose for cameras with faux female golfing partners.”

  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias

• “These observations suggest that the primordial IMPDH used the Thr321 pathway exclusively, and elimination of the Arg418 pathway by mutation of modern IMPDH creates an enzymatic atavist.”

  PLoS Biology: New Articles

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