Incoprea Theory
Vol. XXXII · 89

Theory 02/Refinement

Heritability Depends on Variance

The claim

Heritability is higher in uniform environments, because it is the share of variance, so eliminating environmental variance raises it.

01Mechanism

Heritability is a ratio; reducing the denominator raises it without any genetic change.

02Prediction

Heritability should rise where environments are equalised.

03Refutation

Heritability constant across environmental variance would remove the ratio.