• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Measuring heritability: Why bother?
  • Beteiligte: Shuker, David M.; Dickins, Thomas E.
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022
  • Erschienen in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45 (2022)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x21001606
  • ISSN: 0140-525X; 1469-1825
  • Schlagwörter: Behavioral Neuroscience ; Physiology ; Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
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  • Beschreibung: Abstract 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.