Heritability is a poor, if not unhelpful, measure of complex human behavioral processes

Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Sep 13:45:e162. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21001564.

Abstract

Heritability is not a measure of the relative contribution of nature vis-à-vis nurture, nor is it the phenotypic variance explained by or because of genetic variance. Heritability is a correlative value. The evolutionary and developmental processes associated with human culture challenge the use of "heritability" for understanding human behavior.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Biological Evolution*
  • Humans