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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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We do not know the relative contributions of heritability and environmental influence on abusive behaviours.
If you look at the heritability of depression, it's a similar kind of story.
A study of identical and fraternal twins separated at birth and adopted into different families showed the same heritability.
Perhaps this heritability was limited to those cases in which the heiress transmitted the de facto headship of her house.
Clearly, contemporary views of heritability are populist market eugenics in a new form.
It is striking that studies of twins regularly come up with higher levels of heritability than do other sorts of studies.

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