Psychology · Evolutionary & Biological Psychology
A topic within Evolutionary & Biological Psychology, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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Robert Plomin
Argues DNA is the most consistent predictor of who we become across psychological traits, and that polygenic scores will increasingly let genetic differences be measured directly - a claim critics say runs ahead of what the evidence supports.
Richard C. Lewontin
Argues a heritability estimate describes variance within one population under one set of environments and says nothing about what caused any individual's trait or what would happen if the environment changed, a distinction routinely lost when heritability is popularised.
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