This ancient instinct may have carried over to domesticated dogs.

Fixing things is a family obsession that I inherited.

Marx's conception of history is a throwback to Hegel.

Marx’s conception of history is a throwback to Hegel.

It is a genetic endowment from which we can’t escape.

However, this belief is atavistic and utterly misjudges contemporary conditions.

Firstly, I think there is a lot of apathy in the gun community.

This type of layout, in the form of an 'all in one kit', represents another bacterial.

It had come down to him from a remote ancestry through a thousand thousand lives.

It had come down to him from a remote ancestry through a thousand thousand lives.

Their theories were based on atavism; a belief that all individuals displaying anti-social behavior were biological throwbacks.

Definition of Atavism an Atavism is a phenomenon in which the phenotypic trait appears in the organism after a period of absence.

An atavism of epithelial cells, when they most probably also possessed proto-neuronal functions», concludes Brigitte Galliot.

An atavism is the reappearance of a character present in a distant ancestor but lost in the organism's immediate ancestors.

(C) An atavism is the reappearance of a character present in a distant ancestor but lost in the organism’s immediate ancestors.