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What does heritability mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The condition of being inheritable
  2. (genetics) The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e. the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin
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An analogous operational definition holds for the heritability of derepressed cells.
It is striking that studies of twins regularly come up with higher levels of heritability than do other sorts of studies.
Population geneticists dismiss such gene frequencies by convention and so count digit number as having no heritability.
He mentions a new book on IQ and the heritability of criminal tendencies, among other things.
At the other end of the life history, the heritability of old-age metabolic rate is high.
Clearly, contemporary views of heritability are populist market eugenics in a new form.

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