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Appearance of ancestral characters in the new borns, such as tail, monstral face, gill slits, multiple mammae etc. are known as
Or
Presence of tail in a child is an example of

A

Atavism

B

evolution

C

Convergent evolution

D

Mutation

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A
Atavism
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