单词 | atavist |
例句 | The atavist was the possessor of what one colleague called “a very English Englishness”: she didn’t sacrifice Scotland and Wales as part of a Conservative strategy; she hardly noticed they were there. It’s Still Mrs. Thatcher’s Britain 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Call me an atavist, but when I sit there with my printed newspaper, or magazine, or paperback book, only the nosy passenger crowding the arm-rest next to me knows what I’m devouring. The price of airline iPad freedom 2012-12-10T18:00:00Z He could be an atavist, a victim of unconscious regression. Strange Alliance It puts to death with the same ruthless equality the prophet and the atavist. The Joyful Heart The atavists are not, as in the case of the poppies, obviously allied with the type by a full range of intermediate steps, but quite distant from it by their rarity. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Indeed, what emerges from these impeccably researched, coolly absorbing volumes are two Margaret Thatchers, whom we might call the scientist and the atavist. It’s Still Mrs. Thatcher’s Britain 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z On an average the atavists may give lower hereditary figures, but the difference will be only slight. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation One might even suppose that the normal individuals, or the so-called atavists, had really reverted to the original type of the species and that their progeny would remain true to this. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation No doubt, the seeds of the monstrous specimens are trustworthy, but the seeds of the atavists are not less so. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation From this reason it is as interesting to appreciate the hereditary position of the atavists of twisted varieties as it was for the red-flowered descendants of the striped flowers. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The atavist had been happy to be called a “reactionary,” before she became Prime Minister. It’s Still Mrs. Thatcher’s Britain 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Hence, for selection purposes, the atavists must be considered to be in no way inferior to the typical specimens. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Compared with the polycephalous poppies my race of twisted teasels is much richer in atavists. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation A sharper contrast between good representatives of a race and their atavists is perhaps to be seen in no other instance. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation I made three groups, because the atavists show two different types. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Alas, the atavist Thatcher was a different creature, and the atavist gradually consumed the scientist, because the scientist drank her own potion, the one marked “ideology.” It’s Still Mrs. Thatcher’s Britain 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The twisted parents gave as many as 41% twisted children, but the decussate atavists gave even somewhat more, viz., Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation In the experiments on the heredity of the atavists, we have seen that they are, at least often, in no manner inferior to even the best inheritors of the race. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The fact that the worst atavists may have the highest percentage of varietal units seems to leave no room for another explanation. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The variety includes crests and atavists, and may be perpetuated from both. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The atavist now decried the issue as little more than an excuse for the promotion of “worldwide, supranational socialism.” It’s Still Mrs. Thatcher’s Britain 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z One may even select the atavists, pollinate them purely and repeat this in a succeeding generation without any chance of changing the result. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Real atavists or real reversionists were seen no more after the first purification of the race. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation But, on the contrary, the atavists, which are here the individuals with the stature and the characteristics of the lamarckiana, have become _lamarckiana_s in their hereditary qualities, too. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation My isolated atavists bore abundant fruit, and from these I had the next year a set of some 350 plants, out of which about 20% had broadened and linear rosettes. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation No atavists or deviating specimens have been found among many hundreds of flowering plants. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Everywhere gardeners are occupied in destroying these "atavists," as they call them. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Of two hundred seeds one became a blue atavist, or rather vicinist, while all others remained true to the white type. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Such atavists only arise by cultivation in the proximity of allied varieties, never in isolation. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation |
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