The phrase "biological heredity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the passing of genetic characteristics from parent to offspring. For example, "This species' unique coloration has been passed down through biological heredity for many generations."
This became a controversial viewpoint, and, since its introduction, scientists have disagreed about the degree to which biological heredity, as distinct from education and opportunity, is responsible for the great differences in achievement between individuals.
Principal among his contributions in these areas was the development of the notion of "ethnic race", Locke's conception of race as primarily a matter of social and cultural, rather than biological, heredity.
As Darwin knew, his theory of evolution required a distinct idea of how biological heredity worked, but in 1859 he was not prepared to offer one.
Without implying that this is likely to happen today, social and political scientists need to be aware of the complex and often subtle nature of the implications that different notions of biological heredity may have when transferred to policy contexts.
While the data are yet to be confirmed in humans, small noncoding RNAs and perhaps other forms of epigenetic marks clearly can pass meiosis over several generations (Rassoulzadegan et al. 2006; Wagner et al. 2008), allowing for processes of biological heredity to extend beyond fixed genomic variations.
From the point of view of the interaction between biology and environment, Darwin thought that biological variation, heredity and natural selection could lead to the adaptive change of organisms.
Ironically, it was just as Darwin was publishing the Origin of Species that someone got the first real glimpse of the biological machinery behind heredity.
His book concerned the attempt, under Stalin, to obliterate from the Russian mind the entire science of modern genetics & to replace it by a completely fraudulent biological "theory" of heredity that had caught the fancy of Stalin.
In part, it was a breach in the continuity of thought; in part, a hopeless attempt to solve the problems of aesthetics, which are philosophical problems, by the methods of empirical science (e.g., Fechner); in part, a revival of hedonistic and utilitarian aesthetic by a utilitarianism resting on association of ideas, evolution and a biological theory of heredity (e.g., Spencer).
She balances this dynamic against contemporary clichés of seduction, voluntary servitude of women, stereotypes of "gender" and biological determinism of heredity.
For Schroedinger, the most obvious manifestation of biological stability was heredity, hence his interest in the physics of inheritance.
