English to English

noun (n)

• a reappearance of an earlier characteristic(noun.event)

  Synonym:
  reversion, throwback
  

  source: wordnet30
• The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.(noun)

  source: webster1913