Give simple defination on atavism?
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In social sciences, atavism is the tendency of reversion. 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—a great-great-great-grandfather or, more generally, an ancestor.
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An atavism is a modification of a biological structure whereby an ancestral genetic trait reappears after having been lost through evolutionary change in previous generations.
The word atavism is derived from the Latin atavus—a great-great-great-grandfather or, more generally, an ancestor.
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