Linked bibliography for the SEP article "Heritability" by Stephen M. Downes and Lucas Matthews

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Beurton, P. J., R. Falk, et al. (eds.), 2000. The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Block, N., 1995. “How heritability misleads about race,” Cognition, 56: 99–128. (Scholar)
Bourrat, P., 2013. “From survivors to replicators: Evolution by natural selection revisited,” Biology and Philosophy, 29: 517–538. (Scholar)
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Bourrat, P. and Lu, Q., 2017. “Dissolving the Missing Heritability Problem,” Philosophy of Science, 84: 1055–1067. (Scholar)
Burbridge, D., 2001. “Francis Galton on Twins, Heredity and Social Class,” The British Journal for the History of Science, 34: 323–340. (Scholar)
Darwin, C., 1859 [1968]. The Origin of Species, London: Penguin Books.
Dickens, W.T. and Flynn, J.R., 2001. “Heritability Estimates Versus Large Environmental Effects: The IQ Paradox Resolved,” Psychological Review, 108: 346–369. (Scholar)
Downes, S.M., 2010. “Moving past the levels of selection debates: Review of Samir Okasha, Evolution and the Levels of Selection, Oxford, Oxford University Press (2006),” Biology and Philosophy, 25: 417–423. (Scholar)
Downes, S.M. and Kaplan, J.M., 2022. “Changes in heritability: Unpredictable and of limited use,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45: e159. (Scholar)
Dupré, J., 2013. Processes of Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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Falconer, D.S., 1960. Introduction to quantitative genetics, New York, NY: Ronald Press. (Scholar)
Feldman, M.W., 1992. “Heritability: Some Theoretical Ambiguities,” Keywords in Evolutionary Biology, E. A. Lloyd and E. Fox Keller (eds.), Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 151–157. (Scholar)
Freeman, S. and J. C. Herron, 1998. Evolutionary Analysis, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. (Scholar)
Futuyma, D., 1998. Evolutionary Biology, Sunderland, MA: Sinauer. (Scholar)
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Griesemer, J. R., 1994. “Tools for Talking: Human nature, Weismannism, and the interpretation of genetic information,” Are Genes Us? The Social Consequences of the New Genetics, C. F. Cranor (ed.), New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. (Scholar)
Hamer, D. and P. Copeland, 1998. Living with Our Genes, New York: Doubleday. (Scholar)
Herrnstein, R. J. and C. Murray, 1994. The Bell Curve, New York: Free Press. (Scholar)
Hitchcock, C. (ed.), 2004. Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Science, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
Hogben, L., 1933. Nature and Nurture, New York: W.W. Norton. (Scholar)
Hull, D.L., 1981. “Units of Evolution: A metaphysical essay,” The Philosophy of Evolution, R.Jensen and R.Harre (eds.), Brighton: Harvester: 23–44. (Scholar)
Kampourakis, K., 2024. How we get Mendel wrong, and why it matters: challenging the narrative of Mendelian genetics, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. (Scholar)
Kaplan, J., 2000. The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
Keller, E.F., 2000. “Decoding the Genetic Program: Or, some circular logic in the logic of circularity,” The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution, P. J. Beurton, R. Falk and H. Rheinberger (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 159–177. (Scholar)
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Kempthorne, O., 1978. “Logical, Epistemological and Statistical Aspects of Nature Nurture Data Interpretation,” Biometrics, 34: 1–23. (Scholar)
Kitcher, P., 1985. Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
Kronfeldner, M., 2018. What’s Left of Human Nature, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
Layzer, D., 1974. “Heritability Analyses of IQ Scores: Science or Numerology?” Science, 183: 1259–1266. (Scholar)
Lewontin, R., 1974. “The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes,” American Journal of Human Genetics, 26: 400–411. (Scholar)
Lewontin, R. C., 2006. “Commentary: Statistical Analysis or Biological Analysis as Tools for Understanding Biological Causes.” International Journal of Epidemiology, 35: 536–537. (Scholar)
Lloyd, E.A., 1988. The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
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Lynch, K.E., 2021. “The meaning of ‘cause’ in genetics,” Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, 11: a040519. (Scholar)
Lynch, K.E. and Bourrat, P., 2016. “Interpreting Heritability Causally,” Philosophy of Science, 84: 11–34. (Scholar)
Lynch, M. and B. Walsh, 1998. Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits, Sunderland, MA: Sinauer. (Scholar)
Madole, J.W. and Harden, K.P., 2023. “Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46: e182. (Scholar)
Maher, B., 2008. “The case of the missing heritability,” Nature, 456: 18–21. (Scholar)
Matthews, L.J., 2022. “Half a century later and we’re back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 91: 1–9 (Scholar)
Matthews, L. and Turkheimer, E., 2021. “Across the great divide: pluralism and the hunt for missing heritability,” Synthese, 198: 2297–2311 (Scholar)
Matthews, L. and Turkheimer, E., 2022. “Three legs of the missing heritability problem,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 93: 183–191 (Scholar)
Meyer, M.N. et al., 2023. “Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility,” Hastings Center Report, 53: S1 (Scholar)
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Moss, L., 2003. What Genes Can’t Do, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
Non, A.L. and Cerdeña, J.P., 2024. “Considerations, Caveats, and Suggestions for the Use of Polygenic Scores for Social and Behavioral Traits,” Behavior Genetics, 54: 34–41. (Scholar)
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Okasha, S., 2006. Evolution and the Levels of Selection, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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Sarkar, S., 1996. “Biological Information: A skeptical look at some central dogmas of molecular biology,” The Philosophy and History of Molecular Biology: New Perspectives, S.Sarkar (ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, 187–231. (Scholar)
–––, 1998. Genetics and Reductionism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2023. “GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46: e227. (Scholar)
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Serpico, D., 2023. “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Idealisations and the aims of polygenic scores,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 102: 72–83. (Scholar)
Sesardic, N., 1993. “Heritability and Causation,” Philosophy of Science, 60: 396–418. (Scholar)
–––, 2005. Making Sense of Heritability, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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–––, 2008. Evidence and Evolution: The logic behind the science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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–––, 2009a, “Interactive Predispositions,” Philosophy of Science, 76: 876–888. (Scholar)
–––, 2009b, “Making Sense of the Nature-Nurture Debate” (Review of Neven Sesardic, Making Sense of Heritability), Biology and Philosophy, 24: 711–723. (Scholar)
–––, 2014. Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
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–––, 2011, “The impact of gene-environment interaction and correlation on the interpretation of heritability,” Acta Biotheoretica, 60: 225–237. (Scholar)
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