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atavism
The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
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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.
The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
(sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.