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[citation needed] The same notions of atavisms were used by social Darwinists, who claimed that "inferior" races displayed atavistic traits, and represented more primitive traits than other races. [ citation needed ] Both atavism's and Ernst Haeckel 's recapitulation theory are related to evolutionary progress , as development towards a greater ...
Atavistic regression is a hypnosis-related concept introduced by the Australian scholar and psychiatrist Ainslie Meares. Meares coined his term from the English atavism , which is derived from the Latin atavus , meaning a great-grandfather's grandfather and, thus, more generally, an ancestor.
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In addition to the "atavistic born criminal", Lombroso identified two other types: the "insane criminal", and the "criminaloid". Although insane criminals bore some stigmata, they were not "born criminals"; rather they become criminal as a result "of an alteration of the brain, which completely upsets their moral nature."
Atavism or atavistic is a concept in biology and in culture. It may also refer to: a record label; an album by Slough Feg; an album by Otep This page was last edited ...
Expansionist nationalism [15] is an aggressive radical form of nationalism or ethnic nationalism (ethnonationalism) that incorporates autonomous, heightened ethnic consciousness and patriotic sentiments with atavistic fears and hatreds focused on "other" or foreign peoples, framing a belief in expansion or recovery of formerly owned territories ...
Scan of Figure 2, from Darwin's Descent of Man, second edition, illustrating Darwin's tubercle. This atavistic feature is so called because its description was first published by Charles Darwin in the opening pages of The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, as evidence of a vestigial feature indicating common ancestry among primates which have pointy ears.
Revision theory is a subfield of philosophical logic.It consists of a general theory of definitions, including (but not limited to) circular and interdependent concepts.A circular definition is one in which the concept being defined occurs in the statement defining it—for example, defining a G as being blue and to the left of a G. Revision theory provides formal semantics for defined ...