Another word for heredity

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heredity

inheritance, ancestry, hereditary transmission, hereditary succession, genetic makeup, Mendelism, Mendelianism, genetics, eugenics.

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The general laws of heredity and variation have been proved to apply to man as well as to animals and plants.
I guess so, but I wonder sometimes if heredity is the major factor.
Bateson, Mendel's Principles of Heredity (Cambridge, 1909); E.
By it a new heredity, free from the limitations of protoplasmic continuity, is established.
George Sand, who was a firm believer in the doctrine of heredity, devotes a whole volume of her autobiography (Histoire de ma vie, 1857 seq.) to the elaboration of this strange pedigree.

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