ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ATAVISM
From French atavisme, from Latin atavus strictly: great-grandfather's grandfather, probably from atta daddy + avus grandfather.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATAVISM»
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atavism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
atavism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Nietzsche's
Atavism: Genealogy Gone Wild
This thesis shows that Nietzsche's writings posit four human genealogical stages, and that his theory of descent coupled with his evaluation of the merits, or lack thereof, of each of these stages explains why his hopes for the future lay ...
morally insane and the born criminal,'' he identifies studies that had found moral
insanity widespread among the prison population. In this same edition, Lombroso
also declares that the concept of atavism is inadequate to explain the presence ...
3
Atavistic Tendencies: The Culture of Science in American ...
English Dictionary's entry on atavism shows it coming into vogue during the
second half of the nineteenth century, appearing in popular science texts such as
English journalist Walter Bagehot's Physics and Politics (1876) and later
cropping ...
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Literature and Science: Social Impact and Interaction
The idea of atavism was pervasive in the late nineteenth century, and police
forces across Europe developed files of “mug shots” of criminals to be able to
identify the “criminal type.” A version of this atavistic type is Count Dracula, as
portrayed ...
John H. Cartwright, Brian Baker, 2005
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Keywords And Concepts In Evolutionary Developmental Biology
MELANIE L. J. STIASSNY Atavism The term atavism commonly refers to the
reappearance of a character state typical of a remote ancestor in an individual
that really shouldn't have it. That is to say, the state has been lost, or more
commonly ...
ATAVISM, a romantic, historical fiction set in Dalriada, ancient Scotland, one hundred years after Christianity took away women's rights.
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Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology
Peripatus is thus a so-called missing link, or, for more literary minds, a rung in the
great scale of being. atavism When John Langdon Down in 1866 described as
mongolism the developmental disorder now known to humane and ...
Peter Brian Medawar, P. B. Medawar, 1985
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The Silent Word: Textual Meaning and the Unwritten
Marshall McLuhan (after Eisenstein)1 In this essay, I will argue for the analytic
usefulness of the idea of atavism, unpacking its connotations, considering some
historical usage and testing it with a famous silent film, the quasi-ethnographic ...
Robert Young, Kah Choon Ban, Robbie B. H. Goh, 1998
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Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914
Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-
1914 How thinkest thou that I rule this people? ... It is by terror. My empire is of the
imagination. — AYESHA IN She i IN "The Little Brass God," a 1905 story by Bithia
...
Patrick Brantlinger, 1990
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Semantic Web Technologies and E-business: Toward the ...
Definition of “SymmetricProperty” in OWL based on atavism <gmoe:atavism rdf:
resource="oil#SymmetricProperty"/> 3. Atavism We found that some primitives
blocked by the child ontology languages are reused by the descendant ontology
...
A. F. Salam, Jason R. Stevens, 2007
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ATAVISM»
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atavism is used in the context of the following news items.
Will the Burqa Be Banned in Berlin?
In Germany's secular society, religion in general, and Islam in particular, is regarded as an atavism, a relic from a premodern era from which the ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
We Fully Agree with the Pope, Says President of Ecuador
That objective totally agree with the Pope, we should be proud of our roots, defend our identity without involving this anchor ourselves in our cultural atavism, ... «Prensa Latina, Jul 15»
Little between activists and the establishment
But atavism is inescapable — as an example: no sooner have activists pronounced it their "duty" to speak truth to authority than they are caught ... «BDlive, Jul 15»
The conservative politics of the same-sex marriage ruling
... “a keystone of the nation's social order” and “essential to our most profound hopes and aspirations” are flatulent exercises of cultural atavism. «Al Jazeera America, Jun 15»
Remember, Knicks Fans, Basketball Is a Global Sport
Porzingis, who speaks Latvian, Spanish and excellent English (I can match him word for word in English), took our atavism in stride. He smiled ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
Confederate Flags Should Go. Accurate History Should Stay.
Historical accuracy is not an endorsement of atavism. It is a reminder that freedom is always in danger and requires not just vigilance but ... «The Federalist, Jun 15»
Brian John Spencer :Save Ulster From Obloquy
That's the challenge, to drown out the atavism and anti-progress with kind of positive action we saw when Belfast and the people of Northern ... «Huffington Post UK, Jun 15»
Dr. Tommy Hammer Releases New Novel
This limit will exist because traditional values, with accompanying cultural atavism, will always outbreed progressive values. In a simple tale ... «Digital Journal, Jun 15»
Surprised by a boy
Genetics sometimes produce strange results in human procreation. A piece of the mother here, a piece of the father there, some atavism from ... «Coeur d'Alene Press, Jun 15»
PM rightfully warns against EU being open to migrants
A breakout of atavism would mean their quick fall because democracy would dwindle away, Mitrofanov says. However, if the politicians only ... «Prague Daily Monitor, Jun 15»
