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Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "hereditary" over time.
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "hereditary" over time.
Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents. Through heredity, variations between individuals can accumulate and cause species to evolve by natural selection. The study of heredity in biology is genetics. Read more on Wikipedia