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The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.

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atavism

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atavism

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/ˈætəˌvɪzəm/

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The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.

日本語の意味

先祖の形質が数世代にわたって消失した後に再び現れる現象。つまり、原始的な特徴や祖先の形質が再現されること。

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The sudden atavism of a vestigial tail in the lab-bred mice surprised the researchers.

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研究者たちは、実験室で繁殖させたマウスに、何世代にもわたって見られなかった先祖の特徴、つまり痕跡的な尾が突然現れたことに驚いた。

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意味（1）

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 unmoral.

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意味（2）

The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.

Upon the death of Theodoric in 526, Ibidus retired from public life to compose his celebrated work (whose pure Ciceronian style is as remarkable a case of classic atavism as is the verse of Claudius Claudianus, who flourished a century before Ibidus); but he was later recalled to scenes of pomp to act as court rhetorician for Theodatus, nephew of Theodoric.

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