throwback

noun

One that has characteristics of an earlier time.

noun

Anything which acts as a setback; specifically, a person who or thing which causes another to seem inferior by contrast.

noun

the reappearance in an organism of characteristics of an earlier ancestral type; atavism.

noun

an organisms having characteristics of an earlier ancestral type.

intransitive verb

to revert to an ancestral type or character.

noun

a reversion to an earlier stage of development

noun

an organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form

noun

atavism

noun

a person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed