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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2022

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Eric Turkheimer*
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Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400, USA. ent3c@virginia.edu; https://uva.theopenscholar.com/eric-turkheimer
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Abstract

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.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e177
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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