atavistic

adj.

隔代遗传的，返祖性的；

1. Many of those present felt this atavistic fear.
   在场的那些人中，很多都感到这种隔代遗传的恐惧。
2. It was characteristic of an old, atavistic callousness that went with her delicacy.
   这正是伴随着她病弱身体的老年返祖现象的一种麻木冷淡的特征。

Atavisms and atavistic mutations
On atavisms and atavistic genes.
Possible "atavistic"structures in human aneuploids.
Atavistic genetic algorithm for economic dispatch with valve point effect
Aging as a mitochondria-mediated atavistic program: can aging be switched off?
Goodbye to Hammurabi: Analyzing the Atavistic Appeal of Restorative Justice
Constituting the Punishable Woman. Atavistic Man Incarcerates Postmodern Woman
Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes
Taxon mapping exemplifies punctuated equilibrium and atavistic saltation
Feminist approaches to criminology or postmodern woman meets atavistic man