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Keywords: Ancestral, Reappearance, Earlier, Atavist, Atavism

Related Terms: Pedigree, Adaptive Radiation, Ancestral, Atavism, Breed, Cross, Crossbred, Crossbreed, Grade , Hybridize, Morph, Phylogeny, Phylogenetic, Scrub, Species, Variety, Inbreeding, Linebreeding, Progeny, Purebred, Mosaic Evolution, Clade, Cladistics, Backyard Breeder, Strain, Convergent Evolution, Speciation, Form, Crossbreeding, Cladogenesis, Vestigial, Macroevolution, Symplesiomorphy, Phenetics, Phylogenetic Tree, Subtype, Allopatric Speciation, Anagenesis, Speciation, Reproductive Isolation, Sympatric Speciation, Parallel Evolution, Line Breeding, Divergent Evolution, Strain, Bloodline, Breed True, Outcrossing, Sibling Species, Line-Breeding

the reappearance in an organism of characteristics of an earlier ancestral type; atavism.

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an organisms having characteristics of an earlier ancestral type.

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an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism

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a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

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characteristic of an atavist

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an animal whose conformation, and often temperament, resembles the ancestral type rather than resembling its breed

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