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heritability  

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  • The concept of heritability comes to us from population genetics. The idea was developed but not named by the geneticists Sewall Wright and Ronald Fisher. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Mind; Heritability]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/heritability

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