Atavistic vs Primate - What's the difference?
atavistic | primate |
(biology) of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes.
* 1889 , U.S. Office of Experiment Stations, Experiment Station Record
* 1946 , Reginald Ruggles Gates, Human genetics
* 2006 , Roger E Stevenson, Judith G Hall, Human malformations and related anomalies
of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.
* 1934 , Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
* 1979 , Norman Spinrad, A world between
* 2000 , Steven Heller, Marshall Arisman, The education of an illustrator
relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.
(zoology) A mammal of the order Primates , including simians and prosimians.
(informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.
(ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
(ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.
As an adjective atavistic
is (biology) of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes.As a noun primate is
(zoology) a mammal of the order primates , including simians and prosimians or primate can be (ecclesiastical) in the catholic church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.atavistic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Although the heterozygote gives it an atavistic appearance, the gene is not atavistic.
- Thus the gene which produced atavistic digits in the vigorous heterozygous pentadactyl condition is a lethal monster in the homozygous condition.
- Reactivation of a dormant atavistic gene could account for the abnormal costocoracoid ligament in humans.
- They made me feel that I was alive in the nineteenth century, a sort of atavistic remnant, a romantic shred…
- The true perversion took place only in the privacy of her mind — the way she imagined an atavistic macho atop her when engaged in a mandatory contribution to the fetus-banks with some cretinous inept breeder…
- Because I am atavistic enough to believe that drawing is the basic language of the illustrator, even as words comprise the basic language of the writer…
Derived terms
* atavisticallyprimate
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) primate.Noun
(en noun)- ''Primates range from lemurs to gorillas