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The greater the hereditability of a population’s phenotypic variation, the more susceptible it is to the evolutionary forces that act on heritable variation.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

We should propose, then, to introduce a distinction between the hereditability of deviation and that of character.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

If Spencer had begun by putting to himself the question of the hereditability of acquired characters, his evolutionism would no doubt have taken an altogether different form.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur