heredity

Not surprisingly, then, this is a book about heredity, about fathers and sons and their awkward relationships.

A frequently touching domestic drama about an academic Chicago family, it mulls Big Themes: war, faith, heredity.

Heredity decides how a man shall be bred; environment regulates what he shall learn.

Take away from a man all that heredity and environment have given him, and there will be nothing left.

As all men are what heredity and environment have made them, no man deserves punishment nor reward.

I doubt if most people, although they would call that a platitude, realize that heredity is anything more than a telling word.

As might be expected in this severer form of mental disturbance, heredity plays an especially important part in circular insanity.