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Heritability is a poor, if not unhelpful, measure of complex human behavioral processes

2021-11-15

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<p>Heritability is not a measure of the relative contribution of nature vis-à-vis nurture, nor is it the phenotypic variance explained by or due to 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.</p>

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Literature Corpus work: dc34c5fc-8387-58dd-92b5-c0121347decb
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/rkesh

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