Nature versus Nurture :: Genes vs Environment

AbstractThe paper covers the debate of nature versus parent. Within the paper there is an introduction in which the assumption is given and a literature review that provides the reader with previous studies done with nature versus nurture. The methods, results, discussion and recommendations from the research study are likewise provided within the paper. induction and literature reviewThe research question is When comparing Nature verses Nurture in children which one is stronger than the other? The hypothesis is Nature has a stronger correlation than nurture when it comes to individual differences between males and females.There is a big controversy between whether inherited genes or the environment influences and affect our personality, development, behavior, intelligence and ability. This controversy is most practically recognized as the nature verses nurture conflict. Some people believe that it is strictly genes that affect our ways of life, others believe that it is the env ironment that affects us, and some believe that two of these influence us. A wide variety of characteristics have been considered in such debates, including personality, sexual orientation, gender identity, political orientation, intelligence, and propensity for violence or criminality (Wright, 1998). humanity nature is the range of human behaviors that is believed to be innate rather than learned. There is much debate over which behaviors are innate and which are learned, and whether or non this division applies equally to all individuals. Although nurture may have historically referred mainly to the care given to children by their parents, any environmental (not genetic) factor also would count as nurture in a contemporary nature versus nurture debate, including ones childhood friends, ones early experiences with television, and ones experience in the womb(Wright,1998). Indeed, a substantial computer address of environmental input to human nature may arise from external variati ons in prenatal development (Wright, 1998). Either way, social scientists have been struggling for centuries decision making whether our personalities are born or made. Tests are done often on identical twins that were separated to see how they are influenced. In the past cardinal years, it has been discovered that there is a genetic component to about every human trait and behavior (Pinker, 2002). However, genetic influence on traits and behavior is incomplete because genetics account on average for half of the variation of most traits (Pinker, 2002). Researchers are finding that the balance between genetic and environmental influences for certain traits transmute as people get older (Pinker, 2002).