Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Heritable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being inherited. See
inheritable . - adjective Qualified to inherit; capable of inheriting.
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- adjective Capable of being passed on to children.
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Examples
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The notion that there are significant hereditable differences in cognitive functioning between ‘races’ or ‘ethnic groups’ is simply unsustainable.
Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009
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The research supporting the validity of IQ itself and that of hereditable IQ is just too overwhelming.
Income Mobility, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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“The notion that there are significant hereditable differences in cognitive functioning between ‘races’ or ‘ethnic groups’ is simply unsustainable.”
Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009
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Unfortunately, in popular use the second meaning has tended to take over with the result that it has become understood as a justification of unrestrained competition between peers, with no consideration of the hereditable element involved in Darwinian natural selection.
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Unfortunately, in popular use the second meaning has tended to take over with the result that it has become understood as a justification of unrestrained competition between peers, with no consideration of the hereditable element involved in Darwinian natural selection.
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Unfortunately, in popular use the second meaning has tended to take over with the result that it has become understood as a justification of unrestrained competition between peers, with no consideration of the hereditable element involved in Darwinian natural selection.
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Had it been discovered that variable traits within populations are not hereditable, or that hereditable traits never affect fitness, Darwinism would have been immediately falsified.
Clear Thinking? 2005
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A woman who puts a child up for adoption today is arguably more likely to do so for pressing reasons, i.e. due to problems with illegal substances, imprisonment or family abuse, factors that could be hereditable.
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(Keith, 1946, p.8), and Hitler was “also a eugenist,” so “Germans who suffer from hereditable imperfections of mind or of body must be rendered infertile, so that as the strong may not be plagued by the weak … In all these matters the Nazi doctrine is evolutionist” (Keith, 1946, p.9);
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American scientist Avery succeeded in transferring a hereditable property from one bacterium to another with the aid of pure nucleic acid, and in so doing demonstrated that genes are made up of nucleic acids.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968 - Presentation Speech 1969
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