| These atavistic hind legs are nothing less than throwbacks to a totally pre-whale stage of their existence, some fifty million years ago. |
| As already mentioned, one of the possible throwbacks to the past is our love of swimming. |
| We must clean house and send every one of these evolutionary throwbacks to the pond from which they slithered. |
| With few exceptions, they are throwbacks, huge national monopolies that enjoy almost total protection from competition. |
| He came to view born criminals less as evolutionary throwbacks and more in terms of arrested development and degeneracy. |
| Come next year these unexceptional throwbacks might have mutated into cunning reinventors. |
