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#211 — The Nature of Human Nature
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Alcoholism - Is It Heritable?
Even if something were highly herritable in general, in any specific case, it may not, in fact, be expressed. So when we say alcoholism is forty per cent heritable, we mean of the genetic and environmental differences that exist in this population at this time inherited d an a differences contribute about 40 per cent to that liability. But where alcohol has not been discovered, you'll see zero per cent alcoholism among people who have the genome that would determine a hundred per cent alcoholism in another context. The the difference is between what is and what could be....
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