If a child of very quirt, home-loving parents and grandparents should display the love of travel and adventure that had characterized a sea-captain ancestor, it would be called a case of atavism.

如果父母及祖父母都是很安静而家居的，孩子表现了一位当过船长的祖先的特点，探险，这就可以说是一个隔代遗传的例子。