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Example sentences for: heredity

How can you use “heredity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

That's hard to explain if the gap is caused by heredity (why should an inherent difference become larger over time?)
On substance, he is about where we are, except that he raises the dread question of heredity, about which I will say a few words later.
A final point, heredity.
(Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray had previously reported similar findings in their best-selling book The Bell Curve .) To explain those skill differentials, one can try pointing either to training or heredity.
On the subject of heredity, you note that some portion of intelligence does seem to be hereditary, or at least so many serious people say.