Traum und Verantwortung e.V.3d ago

"Meanwhile, some people argue that heritability is meaningless for human traits like intelligence or income or personality. They claim that those traits are the product of complex interactions between genes and the environment and it’s impossible to disentangle the two. These arguments have always struck me as “suspiciously convenient”. I figured that the people making them couldn’t cope with the hard reality that genes are very important and have an enormous influence on what we are.

But I increasingly feel that the skeptics have a point. While I think it’s a fact that most human traits are substantially heritable, it’s also true the technical definition of #heritability is really weird, and simply does not mean what most people think it means."

https://dynomight.net/heritable/

Heritability puzzlers

What heritability actually means

DYNOMIGHT
Hacker News5d ago

Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined

https://dynomight.net/lifespan/

#HackerNews #heritability #humanlifespan #genetics #research #scienceblog

Heritability of human life span is about 50% when heritability is redefined to be something different

ratios will be ratios

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CellBioNewsMar 19, 2025

The tendency of some #flowers to be 'honest' and reward #pollinators with nectar is partly #genetic, study suggests.

#Turnera #heritability

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-tendency-honest-reward-pollinators-nectar.html

The tendency of some flowers to be 'honest' and reward pollinators with nectar is partly genetic, study suggests

Flowers can produce showy displays that appeal to pollinating insects or animals, but some "cheat" by enticing pollinators but not rewarding them with nectar. Research in New Phytologist indicates that the tendency of flowers to be "honest" and reward pollinators with nectar is partly genetic, meaning that it can be passed down through generations.

wyvernsroseJan 19, 2025
The Unbearable Incoherence of Heritability: Interview with Eric Turkheimer: Eric Turkheimer is Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at University of Virginia. https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-unbearable-incoherence-of-heritability?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon @awaisaftab #Psychology #Heritability #MentalHealth #Genetics #EricTurkheimer
The Unbearable Incoherence of Heritability: Interview with Eric Turkheimer

Eric Turkheimer is Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at University of Virginia.

Psychiatry at the Margins
LupposofiFeb 28, 2024

The SEP-entry on Heritability has been replaced by a new one from the same authors, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heritability/

An indication of a hot topic?

#sep #heritability #heredity #inheritance #genes #evolution #philosophy #perinnollisyys #geenit #bioethics

Heritability (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Giuseppe MichieliJan 8, 2024
Estimating the #heritability of #SARS-CoV-2 #susceptibility and #COVID19 #severity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44250-7
Estimating the heritability of SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility and COVID-19 severity - Nature Communications

How our genes and environment determine our vulnerability to SARS-CoV-2 infection and the severity of COVID19 remains uncertain. Here, the authors find that as the pandemic progressed the relative importance of genetic variation increased, highlighting the dynamic nature of heritability amidst changing public policies and vaccination rates.

Nature
NIOO-KNAWJul 28, 2023
New NIOO publication: Artificial selection for reversal #learning reveals limited repeatability and no #heritability of cognitive flexibility in great tits. #parusmajor #animalpersonality #cognition #quantitativegenetics
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1067
Simple Dictionary BotJun 20, 2023
#Heritability - The state of being heritable.
nopeMay 9, 2023
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Sociopolitical Attitudes
(2018) : Bell, Edward Kandler, Christia...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pls.2018.17
#heritability #germany #behaviour #socio_politics #politics #my_bibtex
Genetic and environmental influences on sociopolitical attitudes | Politics and the Life Sciences | Cambridge Core

Genetic and environmental influences on sociopolitical attitudes - Volume 37 Issue 2

Cambridge Core
juli g pausasApr 28, 2023

In the stable #Ulex parviflorus & #Apis melifera #pollination system, stabilizing #selection & low #heritability in #flower #traits are current limiting #floral #evolution, yet maintain enough heritable variation for responding to possible novel selection pressures

Quantitative genetic analysis of floral traits shows current limits but potential evolution in the wild By @cala_castellanos et al. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0141

#SussexLifeSci + #UPV #CIDEinvestiga #FloralEvolution #ecology @ecology