I have heard the term “heritable” used to mean something like: “Parental life outcomes are strong predictors of child life outcomes, and both outcomes will likely be similar.” At that level of abstraction, heritability is a true phenomena. But that says nothing about mechanism. The two obvious candidates are:
genetics
environment
Eugine seems to be rejecting environment, so I’m not sure what he thinks is the causal mechanism for heritability, if not genetics or similar unalterable in-born traits.
I have heard the term “heritable” used to mean something like: “Parental life outcomes are strong predictors of child life outcomes, and both outcomes will likely be similar.” At that level of abstraction, heritability is a true phenomena. But that says nothing about mechanism. The two obvious candidates are:
genetics
environment
Eugine seems to be rejecting environment, so I’m not sure what he thinks is the causal mechanism for heritability, if not genetics or similar unalterable in-born traits.
I’m not rejecting environmental causes, I’m objecting to whowhowho’s claim that genetic causes aren’t even worth discussing.