Usually means: Reverting to primitive or ancestral traits.
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adjective:  (biology) Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes.
adjective:  Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.
adjective:  Relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.

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