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heredity

[huh-red-i-tee] / həˈrɛd ɪ ti /


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“Was it something organic? Was it a matter of heredity, upbringing, environment, or external conditions?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

In Galton’s day, the impact of heredity on who we are as people had become recognized, then greatly exaggerated—a trend that continued through the next century and remains alive and well today.

From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2026

"Health effects of air pollution are synergistic manifestation of factors which include food habits, occupational habits, socio-economic status, medical history, immunity, heredity, etc," it said.

From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025

It’s a Gothic, environmental take on heredity as well as inheritance, with one of the Haddesley daughters, Wenna, challenging both as human and earthen secrets bubble to the surface.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024

“We are interested in heredity not primarily as a mathematical formulation,” he wrote, “but rather as a problem concerning the cell, the egg and the sperm.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

However, the real message that the new research carries is an exciting and hopeful one: that Indians have created a long-lasting civilisation from a variety of heredities and histories.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2018

In spare moments he surprises mice and guinea pigs, studying their heredities and acquired characteristics.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are, however, certain heredities which come down to us which our writings of the present day may be traced to.

From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain

Our knowledge of individual malign heredities is too meager to carry us very far at present.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer

Always some strong barbarians, endowed with rich, unspoiled heredities, caught the falling torch and bore it onward flaming high once more.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard


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