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    It is not the case that Traits cannot be attributed primarily to genes or primarily to environment in any fixed proportion

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    • 1.Quantitative genetics legitimately partitions phenotypic variance into heritable and environmental components via heritability coefficients (h²).
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    • 2.Heritability estimates for traits like height (~0.8) and IQ (~0.5–0.8) within defined populations constitute meaningful, reproducible causal attributions.
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    • 3.A claim that no proportional attribution is possible conflates population-level statistical decomposition with individual-level developmental causation, invalidating neither.
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    • 1.Galton, Fisher, and the biometrical tradition established that additive genetic variance can dominate phenotypic variance even under gene-environment interaction.
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    • 2.If certain alleles (e.g., PKU, Huntington's) produce their phenotypic effects across virtually all normal environments, then 'primarily genetic' attribution is empirically warranted for those traits.
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    • 1.Traits are jointly determined by multiple causes
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    • 2.Each causal factor is context-sensitive and contingent
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    • 3.No single cause operates independently of others in organismal development
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