~ ATAVIC   id+ | REAPPEARANCE OF AN ANCESTRAL REMNANT |
           stress on REMNANT
           lat ATAVUS = GRANDFATHER
                 AVUS   FATHER OF A GREAT GRANDFATHER
~ ATAVISM  id+ | FOREIGN TO THE PRESENT |
           id+ | BEYOND ITS TIME or ERA |
  biol> WHEN A HUMAN DEVELOPS A TAIL etc
        THE PRESUMPTION WAS and now
  THE UNDERSTANDING IS THAT
  AS ORGANISMS EVOLVED
  ANCESTRAL GENES REMAINED PRESERVED BUT
  REPRESSED THUS THEY CAN BE ACTIVATED
  AND EXPRESSED AGAIN                  sug> CONFORM
  UNDER UNBALANCED CIRCUMSTANCES       sug> DEFORM
  SUCH AS WHEN AN ORGANISMS INHERITS   sug> MALFORM
  A CHROMOSOMAL IMBALANCE CAUSING A    sug> DYSMORPHOLOGY
  MALFORMATION SYNDROME                sug> DOWN SYNDROME
  med> MANY HUMAN AND                  sug> ANIMAL
       NON HUMAN ANIMAL                sug> ANIMATE
  "BIRTH DEFECTS" or more properly     sug> FLAW
  CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS ARE THE     sug> MALFEASANCE
  RESULT OF AN IMPERFECT CONTROL OF    sug> CONVOLUTE
  ATAVIC MECHANISMS                    sug> REVOLUTION
  as eg FLAWED APOPTOSIS               sug> DECAY

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