I am against the hereditary succession of owners in companies.

This is used to establish the pattern of inheritance.

Inheritance practices, whereby land traditionally passes from father to son, reinforce male control of land.

This definition mixes nature and nurture, and means that traits can to some extent be learned rather than merely inherited.

Inheritance rules dictating that land and its proceeds can be passed down only through the men of the family have put women at a terrible disadvantage.

Heritability comes from methylation of promoters targeted by RNAi the new methylation pattern is copied in each new generation of the cell.

The first person to really start studying and thinking about heredity in a modern way was this Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel, and Mendel demonstrated that inheritance followed particular patterns.

Since China never established male primogeniture, this meant that when he died, each son could have his own business to start with.

For example, while the Koran allows for a measure of female inheritance, tribal custom does not authorize it, which explains the popularity of tribal councils to resolve inheritance problems and cheat women out of their rights.