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Avatar vs Atavism - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between avatar and atavism

is that avatar is avatar (the earthly incarnation of a deity, particularly vishnu) while atavism is the reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence.

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