atavism

Our assumption that work and fun are opposed seems like an atavism from millenia of scrounging and slavery.

Thus, this innovator's penalty is an atavism, but it's not one we're going to overcome anytime soon.

Agree, whinging about Unicode just seems like atavism for the days when computer users who did no speak English were ignored.

" Which is why a woman will almost never ask a man out."\""Most people seem to prefer atavism when it comes to dating and bedroom activities.

Function keys at this point are certainly old school and could even be considered an atavism, like the Print Screen button or the numeric keypad.

Reading that takes me back to the mid-80s, when I encountered a port of emacs for the Amiga and I was just bewildered by it - in the age of GUIs, something developed before microcomputers and mice seemed like an pointless atavism.

Many native English speakers might have trouble with a few of these: abeyance, abscission, accretion, amalgamate, anodyne, antediluvian, apposite, arabesque, atavism, and avuncular.

Thus, eventually adult neurogenesis ceased to increase fitness in large mammals, became effectively an atavism, and mutation load disabled some relevant genes, but it still could hang on a few pathways that either work or do net depending on specific alleles present in the population.

In fact, their thinking is not nearly as much a discovery as it is a recognition, remembrance, a returning and homecoming into a distant, primordial, total economy of the soul, from which each concept once grew: – to this extent, philosophizing is a type of atavism of the highest order."...