Genetic factors are often responsible for variation within populations, while environmental factors are usually responsible for variation between populations, per Rose’s causes-of-cases vs causes-of-incidence distinction.
Evidence
Sick individuals and sick populations (International Journal of Epidemiology / Oxford Academic)
Categorization
- corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Intelligence is malleable and shaped by environment, not fixed by heredity — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 54; Lewontin’s corn thought experiment shows within-group phenotypic variation can be genetic while between-group variation is environmental, since within-group heritability is irrelevant for determining causes of among-group differences. — Heritability within groups is uninformative about differences among groups: Cases from behavioral, evolutionary, and statistical genetics
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