“Missing Heritability” and Missing Children: On the Issues of Heritability and Hereditarian Interpretations

3100 words “Biological systems are complex, non-linear, and non-additive. Heritability estimates are attempts to impose a simplistic and reified dichotomy (nature/nurture) on non-dichotomous processes.” (Rose, 2006) “Heritability estimates do not help identify particular genes or ascertain their functions in development or physiology, and thus, by this way of thinking, they yield no causal information.” (Panofsky, … Continue reading “Missing Heritability” and Missing Children: On the Issues of Heritability and Hereditarian Interpretations