0 the process by which characteristics are given from a parent to their child through the genes: --
1 the natural process by which parents pass on to their children through their genes the characteristics that make them related --
Entry is a function of heredity, via infant baptism.
But the perspective here implies that it is misleading to talk about the relative strengths of environment and heredity because of two kinds of interactions.
First, the impact of heredity may be quite different depending on the environment.
The data on heredity, he explained, were "so unreliable" that they were hardly worth tabulating.
The specific heredity implied by this may be valid only for a certain group of alcoholics, he suggests.
There are other important interactions between heredity and environment.
Beginning with a search for origins, history in the prefaces is "driven by the episteme of genealogy and heredity" (p. 137).
Either heredity or experiential genetics may lead to compounding behavioral and biochemical end points similar to those seen in depression and reversible by antidepressants.