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heredity

[huh-red-i-tee] / həˈrɛd ɪ ti /


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The book also explores Leonardo's own thinking about heredity.

From Science Daily May 4, 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

The possibility of a genealogical tree of life is predicated on the existence of an underlying process of heredity.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

"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

Aristotle was wrong in his partitioning of male and female contributions into “material” and “message,” but abstractly, he had captured one of the essential truths about the nature of heredity.

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

Here is huddled together a great mass of human wreckage, a large part of it being the product of imperfect heredities acted upon by impossible environments.

From Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Darrow, Clarence

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 Guyer, Michael F.

I submit that each man and woman has two heredities: one the ordinary heredity from two parents and their forbears, the other more complex and purely mental—the tradition of sex.

From The Intelligence of Woman by George, Walter Lionel




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