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Nature-Nurture Debate

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Nature-Nurture Debate
The ongoing polemic about whether differences in individual responses to one's environment and behaviours are due either to genetics—i.e., nature—or to environment—i.e., nurture—or, as many believe, bits of both


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Harris, a journalist, seeks answers beyond the nature-nurture debate, which she views as insufficient for explaining the development of personality.
Gustav Holst is a fascinating example of the much wider nature-nurture debate.
One comes away from Money's book with the impression that, regardless of the puzzle before him, he worked with a driving tension created by a desire to fit the pieces into a whole while not falling into the traditional nature-nurture debate.
 
 
 
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