| 1. | Some dismiss these primitive features as recent mutations rather than atavisms.
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| 2. | Such a re-emerged trait is called an atavism.
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| 3. | Painting faces and tearing down goal posts was always seen as healthy atavism.
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| 4. | The presence of these kind of vestigial structures is known as an atavism.
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| 5. | This is the first recorded instance of this form of atavism in the blackfin flounder.
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| 6. | It is a case of atavism ."
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| 7. | Atavisms can occur in several ways.
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| 8. | Biologists propose that the reason atavisms exist at all is nature's propensity for recycling old ideas.
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| 9. | The notion of atavism was used frequently by progress, as development towards greater complexity and superior ability.
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| 10. | Instead he found on the nestlings'thighs " a series of permanent feathers, and no atavism.
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