Atavism

Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type.

In biology, an atavism is an evolutionary throwback, such as traits reappearing which had disappeared generations before. Atavisms can occur in several ways. One way is when genes for previously existing phenotypical features are preserved in DNA, and these become expressed through a mutation that either knock out the overriding genes for the new traits or make the old traits override the new one. A number of traits can vary as a result of shortening of the fetal development of a trait (neoteny) or by prolongation of the same. In such a case, a shift in the time a trait is allowed to develop before it is fixed can bring forth an ancestral phenotype.

In the social sciences, atavism is a cultural tendency—for example, people in the modern era reverting to the ways of thinking and acting of a former time. The word atavism is derived from the Latin atavus. An atavus is a great-great-great-grandfather or, more generally, an ancestor.

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Descending and turning
A shadow with soles in his hand
Standing alone by the garden I hear his command
Swaying blindly, under a moribund sun
Strangely the pain has only begun
Painlessly crossing the yard-lines,
the ball in his hand
Piles of bodies dispatched in the grass
and the sand
Helmets crashing, under the weight of the one
Vaguely aware the pain has begun
Out of the window the sirens of slaughter begin
Whistling alone in the silence
I hear them come in
Fading, blinded, foraging under the leaves

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Last minute voters rush to cast their ballots at the Christ United Methodist Church precinct in north Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016.

Voter suppression laws likely tipped the scales for Trump, civil rights groups say

Edit The Miami Herald 10 Nov 2016

Civil rights groups say a tangle of Republican-backed “voter suppression” laws enacted since 2010 probably helped tip the scale for Republican nominee Donald Trump in some closely contested states on election night ... Alabama, Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin ... minorities, the poor, college students and other young voters. ... ....

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Protesters holds up signs in opposition of Donald Trump's presidential election victory as they march from Jefferson Square Park, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 in Louisville Ky.

Donald Trump reacts as protests against election victory surge in cities across US for second night

Edit The Independent 11 Nov 2016

President-elect Donald Trump fired back on social media after demonstrators in both red and blue states hit the streets for another round of protests, showing outrage over the Republican's unexpected win ... Late Thursday night, Trump went on Twitter to take on the protesters....

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Nasa space telescopes reveal a brown dwarf

Edit The Times of India 11 Nov 2016

WASHINGTON. In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Nasa's Spitzer and Swift space telescopes joined forces to reveal a brown dwarf - thought to be the missing link between planets and stars, with masses up to 80 times that of our solar system's most massive planet, Jupiter ... Stay updated on the go with Times of India News App ... RELATED. From around the web....

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[VIDEO]: Obama, President-Elect Trump Hold First White House Meeting

Edit WorldNews.com 10 Nov 2016

U.S. President Barack Obama met one-on-one with President-elect Donald Trump for 90 minutes at the White House on Thursday in part as a courtesy call and get-to-know-you session slightly more than 36 hours after the nation delivered a stunning upset to the current president’s legacy, Time magazine reported. Obama described the meeting as “an excellent conversation” touching on a wide range of organizational issues and foreign policy....

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Nuclear weapons: how foreign hotspots could test Trump's finger on the trigger

Edit The Guardian 11 Nov 2016

From North Korea to Iran to Russia, a president-elect with civilisation-ending weaponry at his fingertips will face an in-tray of potential international crises. On Donald Trump’s first day in office he will be handed the “nuclear biscuit” – a small card with the codes he would need to talk to the Pentagon war room to verify his identity in the event of a national security crisis ... Read more ... He’s not competent ... North Korea ... Russia ... ....

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American Black Mass

Edit CounterPunch 04 Nov 2016

What do the celebrants of a Black Mass do when it ends? Do they take selfies of their macabre stigmata? Or, compose cryptic messages to Satan that are burned with sulfur incense? Or, emotionally exhausted, slump in front of the TV to watch a rerun of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?. America is just concluding a Black Mass obscured as a Presidential election ... Roughly half are just militant Republicans giving vent to their tribal atavisms....

Old Night Business

Edit CounterPunch 14 Oct 2016

His Arrival .. The great contemporary Muslim scholar Faisal Devji notes that the puzzled Western reaction to photos of Taliban warriors flanked by plastic flowers and Alpine backdrops is rather absurd, given our centuries of highly weird manger scenes with Savior and clan planted in snowdrift, frost, and ice ... Perhaps ... Nicholas in order to calm official suspicions of pagan atavism, an old and only partially-successful ploy of the Church ... ....

How the Washington Post killed Bernie Sanders’ candidacy

Edit New York Post 12 Oct 2016

The Bernie Sanders candidacy didn’t die a natural death — it was murdered ... a throwback to the low-rent Democratic politics of many decades ago … to the affluent white-collar class, what he represented was atavism, a regression to a time when demagogues in rumpled jackets pandered to vulgar public prejudices against banks and capitalists and foreign factory owners. Ugh .” ... SEE ALSO ... .0 ... ....

Salvador Dalí's surreal cookbook set to be Christmas bestseller

Edit The Guardian 11 Oct 2016

Reissue of the lavish compilation of recipes, Les Diners de Gala, features dishes such as conger eel of the rising sun and frog pasties ... Divided into 12 chapters with titles such as “Prime Lilliputian malaises” (meat) and “Deoxyribonucleic Atavism” (vegetables), the book also features sumptuous Dalí illustrations and photographs of the painter posing alongside tables loaded with a banquet’s worth of food ... Twitter ... Twitter ... 2 egg yolks ... ....

Central and eastern Europe as playground of a conservative avant-garde

Edit Open Democracy 03 Oct 2016

Central and eastern European hard right parties have more rapid success than their western counterparts, due to these countries’ subjection to the worst effects of neoliberalism and financialisation ... Vadim Ghirda/Press Association ... But they are not alone ... An atavistic east? ... "it is governments... Indeed much of the public reaction to the crisis has emphasised technocratic fixes to problems diagnosed as little more than simple atavisms ... ....

Rosemary Jenkinson interview: ‘Belfast dialect is like Synge on acid’

Edit The Irish Times 03 Oct 2016

In a recent Irish Times piece you mention that although you are best known as a playwright, you have actually been “writing stories for much longer”. Your first collection, Contemporary Problems Nos. 53 & 54, was published by Lagan Press 12 years ago, in 2004 ... You also have a story in The Glass Shore ... I don’t like to be too serious ... Your stories often examine the convolutions and atavisms of sectarian logic in Northern Ireland ... ....

'Pete's Dragon' - A Mini-Review

Edit Commercial Appeal 06 Sep 2016

"Pete's Dragon" (PG, 82 min.) ★★★½  "Be open to looking" is both metaphysical counsel and practical advice in director David Lowery's powerful film about a literally warm and fuzzy fire-breather with a prognathic jaw (a 1960s-70s Disney atavism ... Indie Memphis Film Festival regulars may recognize the connection between this "Dragon" and Lowery’s 2009 feature “St ... ....

Do differences unite us?

Edit The Hindu 28 Aug 2016

So, we must fight the narrow forces that push for homogeneity ... Following the recent terrorist attack in a Dhaka café, Anne Bernard writes in The New York Times, that the “global mood increasingly feels like one of atavism, of retreat into narrower identities of nation, politics or sect…” Given this bleak scenario, perhaps, we should all make a concerted effort to befriend and celebrate the ‘other.’ ... Email....

Why Can’t Some People Curl Their Tongues?

Edit Slate 08 Jul 2016

You can follow Quora on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus ... Maybe the evolution of dexterity or finer motor control of other muscles resulted in tongue “dexterity.” It’s possible that it is an atavism, something that increased tongue muscle control was once useful for tasting or eating certain kinds of foods millions of years ago, and it has not disappeared because the developmental program for fine muscle control is still there....

After attacks on Muslims, many ask: where is the outpouring of grief?

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 06 Jul 2016

Paris. In recent days, jihadis killed 41 people at Istanbul's bustling, shiny airport; 22 at a cafe in Bangladesh; and at least 250 celebrating the final days of Ramadan in Baghdad ... The global mood increasingly feels like one of atavism, of retreat into narrower identities of nation, politics or sect, with Britain voting to leave the European Union and many Americans supporting the nativist presidential campaign of Donald Trump ... ....

What Is on Justice Anthony Kennedy's Mind?

Edit The Atlantic 29 Jun 2016

Seldom has it seemed more puzzling than at the end of the Court’s 2015 to 2016 term ... What is the Sphinx up to? ... Nonetheless, in Fisher v ... It is gospel to many conservatives that “racism” is a dreadful and distasteful atavism that afflicts a few wretched individuals but has no implications for the fairness of the American system—and that this “racism as individual sin” is just as likely to be committed by minorities as by whites ... Gore ... ....

Biophilia as Extreme Sport

Edit CounterPunch 24 Jun 2016

The renowned biologist E.O. Wilson gave us the term “biophilia,” which he defined as “the urge to affiliate with other forms of life.” As the world’s human population goes on expanding and walling itself up in cities, and the Sixth Extinction gathers steam, this urge is often expressed as an increasingly desperate kind of nostalgia ... Charles Foster, the author of , is thus a something of an atavism ... It’s a good read, for a while ... ....

Why west will continue to dominates non-west

Edit Kashmir Observer 23 Jun 2016

I would like to begin this essay by stating that my identity is, after many convoluted years, reasonably settled. Yes, my Kashmiri Muslim ethno religious background is indelible but it is also complemented by a more expansive, cosmopolitan self and a more capacious world view- the kind that defies stereotypes and caricatures ... It, actually need not ... Till then, it is forces of atavism that will define our world - Western or non Western. ....

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Proof of Evolution - Part 3 (Atavisms and Fossils)

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Atavism 2.3.x - How to Create Instances, Spawn Points and Portals

Atavism 2.3 - How to add weapons or tools for your game By Chasle

Slough Feg "Hiberno-Latin Invasion" - Atavism, Track 04

SND - Atavism (tracks 8, 9, 10)

Deniro - Atavism

Proof of Evolution - Part 3 (Atavisms and Fossils)

Atavism Demo - Anyone Can Make an MMO

Unity 3D MMO Kit Atavism Online

Atavism - A Task Of Butchery

Atavism v2 5 - New way to install server

Atavism 2.3.x - How to Create Instances, Spawn Points and Portals

Atavism 2.3 - How to add weapons or tools for your game By Chasle

Slough Feg "Hiberno-Latin Invasion" - Atavism, Track 04

SND - Atavism (tracks 8, 9, 10)

Deniro - Atavism

Proof of Evolution - Part 3 (Atavisms and Fossils)

Atavism Demo - Anyone Can Make an MMO

Unity 3D MMO Kit Atavism Online

Atavism - A Task Of Butchery

Atavism v2 5 - New way to install server

Atavism 2.3.x - How to Create Instances, Spawn Points and Portals

Atavism 2.3 - How to add weapons or tools for your game By Chasle

Slough Feg "Hiberno-Latin Invasion" - Atavism, Track 04

SND - Atavism (tracks 8, 9, 10)

Deniro - Atavism

Proof of Evolution - Part 3 (Atavisms and Fossils)...

Atavism Demo - Anyone Can Make an MMO...

Unity 3D MMO Kit Atavism Online...

Atavism - A Task Of Butchery...

Atavism v2 5 - New way to install server...

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Atavism 2.3 - How to add weapons or tools for you...

Slough Feg "Hiberno-Latin Invasion" - Atavism, Tra...

SND - Atavism (tracks 8, 9, 10)...

Deniro - Atavism...

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