Heritability and Heterogeneity: The Irrelevance of Heritability in Explaining Differences between Means for Different Human Groups or Generations

Biological Theory

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 392-401

  Taylor, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

analysis of variance; generational differences; groups differences; heritability; heterogeneity; IQ test scores; measurable factors; nested analysis; reciprocal causation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 73849086679     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2006.1.4.392     Document Type: Article

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