Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400, USA.
Psychol Bull. 2011 Sep;137(5):825-8. doi: 10.1037/a0024306.
Dar-Nimrod and Heine (2011) decried genetic essentialism without denying the importance of genetics in the genesis of human behavior, and although I agree on both counts, a deeper issue remains unaddressed: how should we adjust our cognitions about our own behavior in light of genetic influence, or is it perhaps not necessary to take genetics into account at all? I suggest that the genetics of behavior does have important implications for how we understand ourselves, the differences among us, and the ethical implications of our actions, but that the usual metric for these considerations, the heritability coefficient, is not the correct one. I propose an alternative.
达恩-尼姆罗德和海因（2011 年）谴责了遗传本质主义，而没有否认遗传学在人类行为起源中的重要性，尽管我在这两方面都同意，但一个更深层次的问题仍然没有得到解决：我们应该如何根据遗传影响来调整我们对自己行为的认知，或者是否完全没有必要考虑遗传学？我认为，行为遗传学确实对我们如何理解自己、我们之间的差异以及我们行为的伦理含义有重要影响，但通常用于这些考虑的度量标准，即遗传力系数，并不正确。我提出了一个替代方案。
