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All humans speak a language (for simplicity’s sake), which indicates that the capacity for language is genetically determined; which language you speak is entirely determined by where you are born, so it is environmental. So, there is no genetic influence on what language you speak, which means that all the diversity of languages spoken is environmental, and so its heritability is zero.
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
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