换句话说，鼹钝口螈的变态是一种返祖现象。
In other words, metamorphosis in mole salamanders is an atavism.
进化返祖现象不仅有可能，有时还在进化的发展中扮演重要的角色。
Not only are evolutionary throwbacks possible, they sometimes play an important role in the forward march of evolution.
探险家罗伊·查普曼·安德鲁斯当时认为，鲸鱼一定是一种返祖的陆地生物。
Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews argued at the time that the whale must be a throwback to a land-living ancestor.
“进化返祖”的专业术语是“atavism”，源自拉丁语的“atavus”，意为祖先。
The technical term for an evolutionary throwback is an "atavism", from the Latin atavus, meaning forefather.
这些返祖性状提供了优势，并在种群中传播，有效地逆转了进化。
These atavistic traits provided an advantage and spread through the population, effectively reversing evolution.
如果因为任何原因，这些事情没有发生，祖先的种种特性也许就不会消失，从而导致返祖现象。
If for any reason this does not happen, the ancestral feature may not disappear, leading to an atavism.
在某些动物身上好几代之后还有返祖的倾向。
There is a tendency in some animals to throw back for several generations.
关于返祖的一个有力例证就是人类的尾骨，它是哺乳动物尾巴的遗留物。
One striking example of an atavism is the human coccyx, or tailbone, which is a relic of the mammalian tail.
在他们那潇洒敏捷的外表里面，涌动着返祖性的原始冲动。
Beneath their chic and natty appearances they respond to atavistic and primitive impulses.
返祖必将受到思维能力的阻碍，而复古恰恰是返祖的一种形式。
Atavism must be counteracted by the powers of the mind, and reaction is a form of atavism .
这正是伴随着她病弱身体的老年返祖现象的一种麻木冷淡的特征。
It was characteristic of an old, atavistic callousness that went with her delicacy.
这项研究其实就是将成熟的细胞返祖，变成类似于胚胎状态的细胞。
The technique essentially reverts mature cells to an embryo-like state.
文明社会的工匠神话对原始工匠神话多有超越，但有时又出现返祖现象。
The civilization craftsman mythology usually exceeds the originality craftsman mythology, though sometimes with the atavism.
作者认为这类珠鳞的畸变是返祖现象，可能在某些方面反映了珠鳞的历史演变过程。
The authors consider that the distortion perhaps is atavism. Perhaps these transitions reflect the developmental process of the ovuliferous-scale in history.
目前还不能肯定陈聪华是一种返祖现象，需要利用高科技手段对其进行进一步的诊断。
Now we are not sure that he has atavism , because such a diagnosis needs more high-tech inspection.
跟退化结构相似的概念还有返祖现象，它的意思是生物体身上重新出现直系祖先没有的结构或特征。
Similar in concept to vestigial structures are atavisms, which are the reappearance of a structure or trait that isn't found in the immediate ancestors.
把一个电气时代的标志性物件返祖回去变成一个目的相同、但风格如此不同的灯，这里面有些妙不可言的东西。
There’s something wonderful about turning a symbol of the electric era into a throwback lamp with the same purpose, but in such a different fashion.
具体而言，和孟德尔学说相反的是，某种特定的用来做实验的植物在经过培育之后会出现返祖现象。
Specifically, contrary to classic Mendel, a certain research plant can revert back to its original grandparents after breeding.
这种返祖现象的语言学成因，除语言内部选择机制的作用外，还有思维经济原则和社会文化心理的作用。
Such an atavism is the consequence of the principles of economy in human thinking and sociocultural psychology as well as the internal selective mechanism of human language.
这种返祖现象的语言学成因，除语言内部选择机制的作用外，还有思维经济原则和社会文化心理的作用。
Through the exploitation of the origin and meaning of the word of "gate", the derivation mechanism and the social and cultural psychology reflected by the "X-gate" words are discussed.
基于返祖性畸形三胚珠球花的出现及其他形态特征，认为麻黄属胚珠数目减少是该属内物种特化的一个趋势；
Reduction of ovule number as a tendency of speciation in the genus is substantiated by the occurrence of tri_ovulate cones coupled with comprehensive characters of the genus.
无论这是真正关心现实的社会问题，还是出于更返祖的观念——固有的、从生物学角度来说混血是错误的观念，我们只能推测。
Whether this was genuine concern for a real social problem or was born of a more atavistic notion that there is something inherently, biologically wrong with mixing RACES, we can only speculate.
无论这是真正关心现实的社会问题，还是出于更返祖的观念——固有的、从生物学角度来说混血是错误的观念，我们只能推测。
Whether this was genuine concern for a real social problem or was born of a more atavistic notion that there is something inherently, biologically wrong with mixing RACES, we can only speculate.
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