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    It is not the case that The assertion that the relative contributions of nature and nurture can be apportioned is misleading if not outright false

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    • 1.Heritability statistics (h²) in quantitative genetics provide well-defined, reproducible variance partitions within specified populations and environments.
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    • 2.Variance decomposition need not presuppose additivity; interaction components (G×E) can themselves be quantified and assigned proportional weight.
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    • 3.A measure being population-relative and context-dependent does not entail it is meaningless or that apportionment is impossible, only that results are scope-limited.
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    • 1.Woodward's interventionist causation allows causal contribution to be defined by the magnitude of change produced by a targeted intervention on one variable while holding others fixed.
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    • 2.Under interventionism, the non-separability of gene and environment effects is an empirical finding, not a conceptual barrier to assigning differential causal responsibility.
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    • 3.Philosophers including Sterelny and Griffiths have argued that causal parity claims about genes and environments themselves presuppose that such contributions can be compared and contrasted.
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    • 1.Apportioning causal contributions requires separability of gene and environment effects
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    • 2.Gene and environment effects are non-additive and context-dependent
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    • 3.Non-additivity makes it impossible to assign fixed proportional causal responsibility to genes or environment
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