Heritability is a poor, if not unhelpful, measure of complex human behavioral processes

Agustín Fuentes; Kevin Bird

doi:10.1017/S0140525X21001564

Heritability is a poor, if not unhelpful, measure of complex human behavioral processes

Agustín Fuentes, Kevin Bird

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Abstract

Heritability is not a measure of the relative contribution of nature vis-à-vis nurture, nor is it the phenotypic variance explained by or because of genetic variance. Heritability is a correlative value. The evolutionary and developmental processes associated with human culture challenge the use of heritability for understanding human behavior.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e162
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	45
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21001564
State	Published - Sep 13 2022

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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Heritability is a poor, if not unhelpful, measure of complex human behavioral processes

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