Some scholars question the use of adoption studies for assessing heritability because
A. adoptive families provide a smaller range of environments than birth parents.
B. adoptive families provide a broader range of environments than biological families.
C. studying adoptive families produces underestimates of heritability.
D. there are too few adoptive families to study.
Answer: A
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