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Heritability
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2019)
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Lucas Matthews and I substantially revised my SEP entry on Heritability. This version includes discussion of the missing heritability problem and other issues that arise from the use of Genome Wide Association Studies by Behavioral Geneticists.Author Profiles
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