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Measuring heritability: Why bother?

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David M. Shuker *
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Thomas E. Dickins
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X21001606delete
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Uchiyama et al. rightly consider how cultural variation may influence estimates of heritability by contributing to environmental sources of variation. We disagree, however, with the idea that generalisable estimates of heritability are ever a plausible aim. Heritability estimates are always context-specific, and to suggest otherwise is to misunderstand what heritability can and cannot tell us.
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences cover
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university of st andrews
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Middlesex University
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