heredity

“The existence of epigenetic heredity is of paramount biological relevance, but the extent to which it happens in mammals remains largely unknown,” said Drs.

Lewontin devoted nearly his entire academic career to the study of genes, the unit of heredity by which traits are passed from parent to offspring.

Sometimes the intended insights have relied on simplified scenarios that shed light on scientific questions, such as Bell’s theorem or heredity, or on philosophical questions, such as elegance in mathematics or randomness.

“We as a species need to maintain the flexibility, in the face of future threats, to take control over our own heredity,” George Daley, the dean of Harvard Medical School, told an audience in Hong Kong in 2018.

Yes, heredity is indeed far more subtle than we’d guess from the simple Mendelian mathematical rules we learned in school.

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.