313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
The Michael Shermer Show
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All Characters Are Heritable
All human behavioral traits are heritable to the effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of the genes. A substantial proportion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families so what would that be luck chance randomness? We're merely puppets of our DNA if you say all characters are heritable but all that really means is that you can there is variability because to have heritability it's got to be variable, he says.
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