Atavism and Ancestral Memory

From The Call of the Wild by London, Jack
London's Darwinian/Spencerian theme: Buck regresses through ancestral memory, dreaming of the short-legged hairy man and recovering instincts buried by generations of domestication.
Chapter 4

Visions of the hairy man by the fire: "And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors... pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him."

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