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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Britannica 11th

ATAVISM (from Lat. atiiviis, a great-great-great-grandfather or ancestor), the term given in biology to the reproduction in a living person or animal of the characteristics of an ancestor more remote than its parents (see HEREDITY). Loosely used, it connotes a ...

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