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laughing_man
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Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about...
I thought the implication was lifestyle isn't as important as we previously believed.
tgv
1 day ago
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On average! Start drinking a lot and find out.
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dash2
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Yeah, it’s important to note that heritability is a statistic about today’s population, not a deep natural parameter that tells you about causality. Heritability of smoking went up when smoking became less socially approved, for example.
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