Atavism is not traditionally the stuff of successful musical theater, unless you count the " primitive man " number from " On the Town ."
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The first stanza of his poem " Atavism " ( 1902 ) is used as the epigraph to Jack London's " The Call of the Wild ":
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In the social sciences, atavism can also describe a cultural tendency of reversion for example, people in the modern era reverting to the ways of thinking and acting of a former time.
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The first chapter opens with the first quatrain of John Myers O'Hara's poem, " Atavism ", published in 1902 in " The Bookman ".
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After testing the notion that extra nipples could be a sign of fertility, he discovers that they are actually an atavism, or evolutionary holdover a sign of how humans evolved.
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*" Through the humans in the stories attempts at explaining Lad's inexplicable actions using " mythologies of atavism ", Terhune reflects his own views . . . "-Awkward.
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Would that the hypertrichosis atavism could be reactivated en masse, thereby giving us all pelts and eliminating in a single stroke prudery, fashion and the chronic shortage of closet space . _ NATALIE ANGIER
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In " Criminal Woman ", as introduced in an English translation by Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary Gibson, Lombroso used his theory of atavism to explain women's criminal offending.
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With the end of this Shadows War, the first of the Aislings ( Dreamers ) are born, free from their old mundane life, and making a difference in the new Atavism Age.
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Heavy metal band The Lord Weird Slough Feg included two songs, written by the band and influenced by Homer's " Odyssey " on their 2005 album " Atavism ".
