heredity

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Not surprisingly, the findings suggest that heredity and environment do contribute to musical aptitude and achievement.

From Scientific American

She reckons with the legacy of the physical spaces where so many of the most vulnerable were callously abused with the justification of "bad heredity."

From Salon

He declared that heredity transfers at Samsung would end, promising the management rights he inherited from his father wouldn’t pass to his children.

From Seattle Times

“When Trump says at a rally in Minnesota, ‘You have good genes, I believe in the racehorse theory of heredity,’ he has all of the earmarks of a classic eugenicist,” Lombardo said.

From Los Angeles Times

Rogers, one of the editors and the author of a previous book about the images, “Delia’s Tears,” maintains that tracing heredity under slavery is complex.

From New York Times