GenPsych Course 2020, Origins 4: Heritability estimates
Channel: Randall O'Reilly
Date: 07/12/2020

Lecture 4 of 10 for Chapter 10: Origins: Evolution, Genetics and Development
Principles of Psychology & Neuroscience Textbook: https://PrinciplesOfPsych.org

How identical and fraternal twins are used to estimate the heritability of different phenotypes such as IQ, and the ways in which this technique tends to overestimate the genetic contributions, compared to newer techniques based directly on the genome itself.