What is meant by the concept of atavism?
What will be an ideal response?
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*Introduced by Lombroso in Crime: Its Causes and Remedies
*Tied to evolution and notion of degenerative traits
*Based on Lombroso's careful study of criminals, soldiers, insane, and general population
*Multiple physical and mental abnormalities viewed as throwback, subhuman
*Insensitivity to pain, low cranial capacity, receding forehead, agility, large ears
*Primitive, un-evolved set of features and behaviors seen as inferior
*Born criminal: lack of moral sensibilities, absence of remorse allows one to commit crime
*Slang and tattoos at that time seemed to characterize the atavist
*Concepts like this used by eugenics
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