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Heritability Is Critical In The Development Study

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According to the textbook, ‘the heritability of a particular trait is the amount of phenotypic variation in a population that is due to genetic variation.’ Along with psychological and emotional development, physical changes take a critical role in development studies. An infant can walk and run as its legs gain strength. Likewise, children’s certain behaviors are related to their genetic inheritance. Developmentalists study heritability to determine the extent of the close genetics results in similar traits via family study such as twin study, and adoption study. Understanding heritability is critical in the development study because not only it allows to find the cause of certain behavior of children, the importance of environmental factors,
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