Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being inheritable, or of being descendible to heirs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs.
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- noun
heritability
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Examples
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The intelligence/inheritability question is one that many people find interesting in a theoretical kind of way.
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The intelligence/inheritability question is one that many people find interesting in a theoretical kind of way.
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Upholding the inheritability of acquired characteristics, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Trofim Lysenko, Aleksandr Oparin, Friedrich Engels, and Josef Stalin all espoused the primacy of proteins and thus of the environment over the genetic endowment.
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Apparently, the very flatness of the inheritability curve is strong, if not overwhelming, indication of non-adaption.
Discovered: the basis of human civilization. Ann Althouse 2005
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Ann had a discussion going earlier on the inheritability, etc. of female ability to climax and whether or not there was selection pressure involved.
Out asexuals. Ann Althouse 2005
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Finally, he noted the possible inheritability of the disorder, given that many sufferers “have a parental or collateral relation labouring under the same infirmity… and many instances can be adduced where the defect has descended for several generations.”
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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Finally, he noted the possible inheritability of the disorder, given that many sufferers “have a parental or collateral relation labouring under the same infirmity… and many instances can be adduced where the defect has descended for several generations.”
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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It talks, for example, much of 'hereditary' and non-hereditary peculiarities, and some of us can remember a time when our friends among the biologists seemed almost ready to put each other to the sword for differences of opinion about the inheritability of certain characteristics; but no one seems to trouble himself much with the question a philosopher would think most important of all -- precisely what is meant by the metaphor of
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In calculating the inheritability of traits, it is also necessary to consider that certain physical, mental and moral traits flower at the arrival of certain ages only.
How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Eugene Lyman Fisk 1907
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Education on inheritability of traits, need of, 323.
How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Eugene Lyman Fisk 1907
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