Sentence examples for inheritability from inspiring English sources

In the early decades of the 20th century scientific consensus on the inheritability of mental illness helped fuel fear over the threat posed by genetic "degeneration".

Lamarck's ideas about the inheritability of acquired traits, for example, have latterly undergone a revival in epigenetics with the interest in the inheritance of acquired behavioral traits.

I don't think we really believe in genetic inheritability of talent quite as much as genetic inheritability of very small eyes that disappear when you smile.

It's inheritability.

In the nineteen-seventies, historians like Henri Ellenberger and Frank Sulloway pointed out that most of Freud's ideas about the unconscious were not original, and that his theories relied on outmoded concepts from nineteenth-century biology, like the belief in the inheritability of acquired characteristics (Lamarckianism).

On the one hand, Galton published papers on the uniqueness of fingerprints or the inheritability of sweet-pea characteristics that would stand up to scrutiny in modern journals.