heredity
genetic endowment

The basic similarity between cells refers not only to their general plan but also to their genetic endowment.

"His work demonstrated that if language were a genetic endowment in apes, then we could just teach them and they would pass it on."

That indicates a less than average genetic endowment for this family.

Life's most serious unfairness, the difference in genetic endowment, would be erased from birth.

But our own personal genetic endowments are discoverable only at high cost, though the price is likely to descend rapidly.

Since your genetic endowment was assembled from many sources and since all records have been destroyed, I can tell you little.

We are beginning to understand our own operating system - genes - and we're gaining the ability to try to "improve" our genetic endowment.

Perhaps the most important and complex decision in the history of our species is approaching: in what ways should we improve our genetic endowment?

There is nothing new about the idea that temperament and behavior are shaped by genetic endowment.

We are products of interplay among our genetic endowment, our physical environment, and out social learning history.