An organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism

Usage examples of throwback.

Genuine mystical or contemplative experiences, for example, are seen as a regression or throwback to infantile states of narcissism, oceanic adualism, indissociation, and even primitive autism.

But that would break one of his prime rules: he had to remain separate and aloof, a primitive throwback to earlier times uncontaminated by the gentler present.

Ryba had intimated that the place was almost a throwback to the white demons of Rationalism, but again, in almost two years no traders or locals had mentioned Cyador.

Perhaps Priestess Poogli is a throwback and senses somehow that this latter-day monosexuality is like a last gasp of a dying civilization and that, food or no food, unless there is a return to the duosexual era, the race of Sacred Fishers is doomed.

Chissis spoke seldom, and then only in the throwback protolanguage, Primal Delphin.

You should see these hairy-jawed throwbacks, these turd lookalikes, honking and chomping at the trough.

A throwback to the days when trial lawyers actually tried their cases.

An occasional throwback to the Persian strain provided someone slight and smooth and creamy-dark, but Mithridates Eupator was a true Germano-Celt.

Compared to the sniping, weasely sons of bitches who had been leading America for the last few decades, he seemed like a throwback to the days when leaders were leaders, when there was such a thing as a great man.

Half of the Saturday Night Live cast is there, along with the press, and assorted antiwar protestors, long-haired throwbacks to the sixties.

He was, so he admitted, and her heart filled the gaps her intellect failed to bridge, a throwback, an atavism, a creature unable to catch the progress of his kind.

It was a throwback to a less civilized epoch of Nar development, when two primitive decapods, meeting for the first time on some tidal flat, would literally have sounded each other out before entrusting their tender inner parts to a stranger.

At night it would drop to near freezing, and in December it would start raining, and the dry lakes would fill up with a few inches of water, and some sort of putrid prehistoric shrimps would work their way up from out of the ooze, and sea gulls would come flying in a hundred miles or more from the ocean, over the mountains, to gobble up these squirming little throwbacks.

Those greasy goombas plunking down an obscene number of quarters to win prizes for their girlfriends—tacky '80s throwbacks whose Aqua Net-shellacked bangs are surpassed in height only by the heels of the Payless pumps that are constantly caught between the wooden planks as they walk.

Such physical strength is a rarity, a kind of genetic aberration which could be a throwback to prehistory, to a primitive construction of muscle fiber quite dissimilar to our own.