atavisms

He dedicated Degeneration to the Italian Jewish physician Cesare Lombroso, who pioneered a criminal anthropology in which bodily deformations or so-called atavisms—big jaws, low brows, even tattoos—identified the delinquent.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

He dedicated Degeneration to the Italian Jewish physician Cesare Lombroso, who pioneered a criminal anthropology in which bodily deformations or so-called atavisms—big jaws, low brows, even tattoos—identified the delinquent.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Hints of long-extinct creatures, echoes of evolution past, occasionally emerge in real life-they're called atavisms, rare cases of individuals born with characteristic features of their evolutionary antecedents.

Wired Top Stories jmckeel 2011

They serve the men who lead the commercial life, give to their sons somnambulistic educations, preach that sleep-walking is the only way to walk, and that the persons who walk otherwise are atavisms or anarchists.

The Somnambulists 2010

Here and there, it is true, there were atavisms, men who yearned for the flesh-pots and cannibal-feasts of the old alleged “individualism,” creatures long of teeth and savage of claw who wanted to prey upon their fellow-men; but they were looked upon as diseased, and were treated in hospitals.

Goliah 2010

Our Supreme Soviet announces that it has sent troops to Afghanistan in order to help it rid itself of the atavisms of capitalism.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

The upwelling of nativist atavisms, the angry frustrations of our people who know in their marrow that the best days are behind us, and a cynical and thoughtless Republican establishment will press upon a weak and confused president.

Michael Brenner: America's World 2010

Above all, he detested what he called the “atavisms” by which Jews gave themselves away, especially when impersonating goyim.

What Young White Jewish Adults Like (About Themselves) « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008

Our Supreme Soviet announces that it has sent troops to Afghanistan in order to help it rid itself of the atavisms of capitalism.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

"It's delusive to say that you are some kind of pious post-historical automaton [for whom] five million years of tribalism have just evaporated," you said, before adding: "I think I'm pretty free of racism, but I get little impulses, urges and atavisms now and then."

Johann Hari: The Two Faces of Amis: An Exclusive Interview With Martin Amis 2009