racial memory

noun

noun

Race memory.

It is as if there were enshrined in these legends a racial memory of the Australopithicines who came close but never did make it to full humanity.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 28:
Even in primitive worlds it persists in racial memories.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 50:

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