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Atavism

n.
  1. recurrence of or reversion to a past style, outlook, approach, or manner.
    1. The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.