Atavist

Your smug authorship style is intended to impart upon me that you know it all, I am just an atavist fool. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Conservatives are to busy going to work and making sinful profits to spend time at a conference to learn how to become a better online atavist. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"It's a mistake to think that privacy is an individualist or atavist right," Rotenberg said. ❋ Unknown (2005)

An atavist of the days of blind chivalry he was, a knight errant in the somber clothes of a fanatic. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

He could be an atavist, a victim of unconscious regression. ❋ Bryce Walton (1953)

It puts to death with the same ruthless equality the prophet and the atavist. ❋ Robert Haven Schauffler (1921)

Of two hundred seeds one became a blue atavist, or rather vicinist, while all others remained true to the white type. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)

[2] Relating to old or established pattern; habitual, ingrained [3] (as a noun) an atavist is a genetic characteristic emerging after absence from several generations (see Wikipedia entry for a more detailed explanation). ❋ Unknown (2009)

But Jesse Helms was so rooted in his atavist traditions, he chose to remain true to his misogyny rather than pose for cameras with faux female golfing partners. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These observations suggest that the primordial IMPDH used the Thr321 pathway exclusively, and elimination of the Arg418 pathway by mutation of modern IMPDH creates an enzymatic atavist. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I’m just fascinated by the use of the word “atavist” regarding immigration, and will definitely use it, e.g. “Columnist Ruben Navarrette is a closet atavist.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

(as a noun) an atavist is a genetic characteristic emerging after absence from several generations (see Wikipedia entry for a more detailed explanation). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Alexandra Maria Lara) in the form of another lighting-addled atavist who relapses into Sanskrit and Sumerian when not aging at a rate of a year per day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The [atavistic] [dew] claw in many dog breeds is a simple example of a genetic [throwback] to an earler stage of dog evolution. An atavistic example in humans is when babies are born with true tails. ❋ OneBadAsp (2006)

English GSCE: "[Mr Hyde] has an [atavistic] nature, acting on his [gut instinct]." Pulling hot birds: "Hey babe that top looks highly atavistic ;)." ❋ AtavisticMouseTrap (2018)

[I am] an atavistic.:[-D] ❋ Tirumarai (2006)