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Heritability

Posted byBrian Hopkins May 22, 2019

A statistic that estimates what proportion of the total population variation in a character or phenotype is due to genetic differences between individuals. 

See Behavior genetics, Character, Genotype and phenotype, Hereditary, Nature-nurture debate, Neo-Darwinism, Non-shared environmental influences, Oligogenic mode of inheritance

Posted byBrian HopkinsMay 22, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: glossary

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