heritable (adj) - capable of being passed from parent to offspring; able to be inherited or passed from one generation to the next [her-i-tuh-buhl]
BREAKDOWN: HER- (heir or heiress) + IT- (go) + -ABLE (able to be)
heritability is a statistical measure that estimates how much of the variation in a specific trait within a population comes from genetic differences rather than environmental factors
“The adult being is an emergent entity who must be understood at his own level and in his own totality. The truly salient issues are malleability and flexibility, not fallacious parsing by percentages. A trait may be 90 percent heritable, yet entirely malleable.” ― Stephen Jay Gould
