Identify from below, the term used by Lombroso to refer to those whom he considered to be evolutionary throwbacks, biological inferior beings who resembled ancestral prehuman forms of life.

A. atavism
B. criminaloid
C. habitual criminal
D. hedonist


A. atavism

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