Life-Span Human Development

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Herritability estimates is the ratio to which a certain trait or behavior is found to be from the genes in one's body or from the environment. My description can be backed up from the textbook Life-Span Human Development 7th Edition, by Carol Sigelman. On page 85 on the textbook, it states that "it has been proven difficult to find a human characteristic that is not to some degree heritable. Genes often account for up to half of the variations of the group." On page 86 of the textbook it also states that "heritability estimates also differ depending on the environment."

The traits that I receieved from my parents are what is considered to be single gene-pair inheritance. According to the textbook Life-Span Human Development 7th Edition, by

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