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How to pronounce “atavism”
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Pronunciation guide for atavism
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of atavism with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Building a dinosaur from a chicken
There's what we call atavism activation.
- Definition summary
- The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
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How to pronounce atavism
Building a dinosaur from a chicken
There's what we call atavism activation.
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A Deep Dive Into “atavism”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; a throwback.
- The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence.
- (sociology) Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence.
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