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Atavistic Evolution: When Lost Traits Reappear

Below is the cleaned version of the file—with URLs, HTML‑style entities, and Markdown formatting symbols removed, while preserving all of the original wording and arranging the content into clear paragraphs. Introduction Atavism is the phenomenon of an ancestral trait re‑emerging in a modern organism after being absent for many generations. Such evolutionary “throwbacks” remind us that dormant…