Usually means: Reverting to primitive or ancestral traits.
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throwback, regressive, secondary, homeochronous, peripatric, autozygous, site-faithful, homochronous, idioadaptive, tetraparalogous, more...

Opposite:
modern, contemporary, up-to-date

Types:
vestigial, recessive, more...

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