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Looking Backward
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Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a utopian time travel science fiction novel by the American journalist and writer Edward Bellamy first published in 1888.
Cover of the Ticknor & Co. first edition of Looking Backward, 2000–1887
Cover of the Ticknor & Co. first edition of Looking Backward, 2000–1887
German Reclam edition 1919
German Reclam edition 1919
Atavism
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In biology, an atavism is a modification of a biological trait's structure or behavior whereby an ancestral genetic trait reappears after having been lost through evolutionary change in previous gener
Looking Backward
…19, for example, he has the new legal system explained. Most civil suits have ended in socialism, while crime has become a medical issue. The idea of atavism, then current, is employed to explain crimes not related to inequality (which Bellamy thinks will vanish with socialism). Remaining criminals are…
Early embryos of various species display some ancestral features, like the tail on this human embryo. These features normally disappear in later devel
Early embryos of various species display some ancestral features, like the tail on this human embryo. These features normally disappear in later development, but it may not happen if the animal has an atavism.