It was these anomalies that first drew my father's attention to the close relationship between the criminal and the savage and made him suspect that criminal tendencies are of atavistic origin.
Finally, it was shown that epilepsy frequently reproduced atavistic characteristics, including even those common to lower animals.
This distinctly atavistic character is connected with the position of the hind-limb in quadrupeds.
The criminal is an atavistic being, a relic of a vanished race.
Several abnormal characters, which point to anatavistic origin, are found in the palm and fingers.
The atavistic origin of crime is certainly one of the most important discoveries of criminal anthropology, but it is important only theoretically, since it merely explains the phenomenon.
They are the outward and visible signs of a mysterious and complicated process of degeneration, which in the case of the criminal evokes evil impulses that are largely of atavistic origin.
The first part contains a summing-up of the author's ideas on the atavistic and pathological origin of the criminal.
The excessive dimensions of the jaws and cheek-bones admit of other explanations besides the atavistic one of a greater development of the masticatory system.
They wandered aside from the cave-mouth, and Saya found completely primitive and wholly atavistic pride in the courage of Burl, who was actually not afraid of the dark!
Because she was terrified, the same sort of atavistic process was at work in her.
He had felt stirrings of atavistic impulses in recent weeks--the more especially when the young girl Saya looked at him.
I believe I once told you I had atavistic streaks?
She could certainly have followed Stephen's atavistic 'public-school' idea of honour with perfect readiness.
You have a very gentle, noble, pastoral nature, with a strong atavistic tendency!
That feeling which I felt to be deep and true within myself, when I was abroad, and which drove me back to my family and my country is what you call atavistic and has no reason for existence, since we no longer live in Mosaic times.
These were my thoughts rather than later meditations on whether this might not be a sort of atavistic social instinct, faintly reminiscent of the gregariousness of their caterpillar youth.
When will the atavistic fingers come and when will I smell the cabin’s wick and the nets?
Now let us see if we cannot find a reason for this atavistic desire (matriarchy) in the physical and psychical histories of its foremost advocates.
We are an ignorant, atavistic people; and our priests are wondrous moral.
The most noticeable and striking fact about the born criminal is his unfortunate inheritance of that atavistic mind.
Neither can the atavistic man try to be something for which his nature was not made.
To say that the atavistic man has "reason" is no answer; he has not the kind of reason that makes for peace and order.
But that would be the uprising within us of our own atavistic and brutish passions; it would not be the result of our promptings of our human reason.
This atavistic mind is inherited by the "born criminal" just as certain "muscles common to apes" are inherited by some other men.
And we are told that this inherited atavistic mind is "the dominant characteristic of the criminal born.
Mr. Darwin has called my attention to the fact that the peloric (symmetrical) flowers which occasionally appear as atavistic forms in Corydalis solida are partly sterile and partly fertile.
An explanation of this rudimentary intermaxillary gland in the Axolotl only appears to me possible on the supposition that the latter is an atavistic form.
But general considerations lead to the supposition thatatavistic forms may easily remain sterile.
He needed truth of some sort, and this sorted well with his need of action, his atavistic French bourgeois characteristics, and his weariness of liberty.
The probability, in this case, is that the atavistic variety will find its way into a pie, instead of being kept as a pet.
Much might be added regarding atavistic degeneracy, as an explanation of the mental and moral defects of human beings.
To-day, since the old interpretation of the direct descent from species to species has been abandoned in the light of modern theories of biological evolution, we can no longer speak of atavistic revivals.
This is a very interesting fact to establish, since at one time it was held that excessive length of arm was an atavistic feature, in other words, an anthropoid reminder.
Consequently too long a hand is in itself an anomaly that indicates a low type of man; it is to be classed with those anomalies that were formerly regarded as atavistic reversions, phenomena of absolute retrogression in the biological scale.
But in the long run the attraction of a land that overflows with energy defeats atavistic proclivities and weakens roots that are centuries old.
The projecting ear has usually been considered as an atavistic character, and with considerable reason, as it is found in many apes, in some of the lower races, and it corresponds to the usual disposition of the ear in the foetus.
It is impossible to admit the idea of atavistic regression.
In the strict sense of the word, however, I doubt very much whether we can legitimately accept the atavistic explanation.
It is not easy to gather up into one statement the various real or apparent atavistic anatomical peculiarities noted among criminals.
The most common (so-called) atavistic abnormalities of the ear--i.
Thus he was led at the beginning to over-estimate the atavistic element in the criminal, and at a later date he has pressed too strongly the epileptic affinities of crime.
These atavistic human tails are often mobile; sometimes they contain only muscles and fat, sometimes also rudiments of caudal vertebrae.
The appearance of structural defects in habitual criminals points less to atavistic reversion than to radical divergence from the normal type of humanity.
It is interesting, by the way, to find this writer agreeing with Ulrichs in his suggestion of a "congenital lack of balance between structures themselves healthy," and with Lombroso in his supposition of atavistic reversion to savagery.
Mrs. Porter herself would have put it down to some atavistictendency or pre-natal influence.
In this I take it that Red-Eye, in spite of his tremendous atavistic tendencies, foreshadowed the coming of man, for it is the males of the human species only that murder their mates.
It gave the explanation, gave sanity to the pranks of this atavistic brain of mine that, modern and normal, harked back to a past so remote as to be contemporaneous with the raw beginnings of mankind.
But some strains of germplasm carry an excessive freightage of memories--are, to be scientific, more atavistic than other strains; and such a strain is mine.
This is theatavistic type of criminals which represents an involutionary, or retrogressive, form of abnormality, due to an arrested development or an atavistic reversion to a savage and primitive type.
These altruistic criminals feel the sufferings and horrors due to the injustice surrounding them and may go so far as to commit murder, which must always be condemned, but which must not be confounded with atavistic or egoistic murder.
For the rest, indefinite segregation, such as we propose for the most dangerous atavistic criminals, is a measure which is already in use for ordinary lunatics as well us for criminal lunatics.
A sort of confused atavistic memory recalls to her a period before clothing was known, and reveals to her as a paradisaical ideal the customs of that human epoch.
Bölsche has sought the explanation of the erogenous nature of the anus, and the key to pedicatio, in an atavistic return to the very remote amphibian days when the anus was combined with the sexual parts in a common cloaca.
Her actions suggest that there is often a latent sexual consciousness in regard to the feet in women, atavistic or pseudo-atavistic, and corresponding to the sexual attraction which the feet formerly aroused, almost normally, in men.
Because the politicians of the old parties will have nothing to do with your atavistic ideas; and with your atavistic ideas, they will have nothing to do because they are what I said they are, henchmen, retainers of the Plutocracy.
