This time I mean it: The nature-nurture debate is over.
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- Academic Journal
- Authors
- Turkheimer E; Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400, USA. ent3c@virginia.edu; https://uva.theopenscholar.com/eric-turkheimer.
- Source
- Publisher: Cambridge Univ. Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 7808666 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1469-1825 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0140525X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Behav Brain Sci Subsets: MEDLINE
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- Language
- English
The target article is skeptical of the heritability concept while maintaining an old-fashioned point of view about it. As a descriptive statistic, it is to be expected that heritability goes up and down in different circumstances, but the relationship between heritability coefficients and the biological processes that underlie them is difficult to specify, and may be impossible in humans.