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Bell (1977) traced the use of the term heritability to the 1830’s, when it was used in its most literal sense as a qualitative term. A trait which could be inherited bore the quality of heritability.
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Doolittle, D.P. (1987). Heritability. In: Population Genetics. Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71734-5_40
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