'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.' @Cedarwooded @HbdNrx @EuropeanDefense @surreal_societyhttps://academic.oup.com/ije/article/35/3/525/735798 …
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So nature > nurture, you're saying?
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Where did you get that from? Heritability is not an absolute number, but one relevant to a given population.
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It was a question to hbdnrx's statement which he seemed to imply.
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His answer doesn’t imply this, not in a universal sense at least. In the united states, variance in height is mostly attributable to genetic differences, he is right in saying that. It doesn’t imply nature > nurture on some universal scale.
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But in the view of the developmental system, nature/nurture is a false dichotomy and both interact to produce said phenotype.
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Heritability estimates don’t measure nature vs nurture, they measure the source variation within given population.
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Heritability estimates cannot be thought of as nature vs nurture in the universal sense because environmental differences can change heritability and frequencies of heritable traits within the population can change the environment.
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Except as seen in the quote, heritability estimates reify the nature vs nurture false dichotomy.
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