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This time I mean it: The nature–nurture debate is over

2022; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 45; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0140525x21001771

1469-1825

Eric Turkheimer,

Child and Animal Learning Development

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.