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Heritability is a poor, if not unhelpful, measure of complex human behavioral processes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 September 2022
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Heritability is not a measure of the relative contribution of nature vis-à-vis nurture, nor is it the phenotypic variance explained by or because of genetic variance. Heritability is a correlative value. The evolutionary and developmental processes associated with human culture challenge the use of “heritability” for understanding human behavior.
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