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"Heritability" means something like "how much of the variation in a population is due to genetic differences". This leads to some odd results, e.g. number of arms has low heritability (almost all variation is due to environment).

Anyway, language is not heritable. The variation in the languages people speak in a population is not due to genes but rather to environmental effects.



This is right. Readers, please mod down my comment above for being simultaneously snarky and dead wrong.




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