"atavistical" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1914, Francis H. Buzzacott, Mystery of the Sexes: Secrets of Past and Future Human Creationism, page 39",
          "text": "Atavistical reversions: In biology the restoration of structural characters which have long been lost or obscured; near return to an original type occurring through partly modified descendants; resemblance to remote ancestors or progenitors; partial return, through hereditary influences, of remote ancestral forms.",
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          "ref": "1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness",
          "text": "All the legendry, of course, white and Indian alike, died down during the nineteenth century, except for occasional atavistical flareups.",
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          "ref": "1996, Hilton Hotema, The Great Red Dragon, Health Research, page 44",
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