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Atavic Atavism
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ ATAVIC   id+ | REAPPEARANCE OF AN ANCESTRAL REMNANT |
           stress on REMNANT
           lat ATAVUS = GRANDFATHER
                 AVUS   FATHER OF A GREAT GRANDFATHER
~ ATAVISM  id+ | FOREIGN TO THE PRESENT |
           id+ | BEYOND ITS TIME or ERA |
  biol> WHEN A HUMAN DEVELOPS A TAIL etc
        THE PRESUMPTION WAS and now
  THE UNDERSTANDING IS THAT
  AS ORGANISMS EVOLVED
  ANCESTRAL GENES REMAINED PRESERVED BUT
  REPRESSED THUS THEY CAN BE ACTIVATED
  AND EXPRESSED AGAIN                  sug> CONFORM
  UNDER UNBALANCED CIRCUMSTANCES       sug> DEFORM
  SUCH AS WHEN AN ORGANISMS INHERITS   sug> MALFORM
  A CHROMOSOMAL IMBALANCE CAUSING A    sug> DYSMORPHOLOGY
  MALFORMATION SYNDROME                sug> DOWN SYNDROME
  med> MANY HUMAN AND                  sug> ANIMAL
       NON HUMAN ANIMAL                sug> ANIMATE
  "BIRTH DEFECTS" or more properly     sug> FLAW
  CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS ARE THE     sug> MALFEASANCE
  RESULT OF AN IMPERFECT CONTROL OF    sug> CONVOLUTE
  ATAVIC MECHANISMS                    sug> REVOLUTION
  as eg FLAWED APOPTOSIS               sug> DECAY
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