The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who we are has dominated the human sciences. Do ...

The wording of the phrase “nature vs. nurture” makes it seem as though human individuality—personality traits, intelligence, preferences, and other characteristics—must be based on either ...

The nature vs. nurture debate in psychology centers on such questions. It asks whether genetics, environmental factors, or a combination of both are responsible for all of our unique behaviors ...

By showing that the brain has innate organizing principles that guide but do not rigidly determine its functional ...

Its Nature and Nurture(Public School Publishing Co., Bloomington, Ill.; two volumes; $3.50). Said Stanford’s famed Psychologist Lewis Terman: “It appears characteristic of the Iowa group of ...

Are biological organisms, human beings in particular, a blank slate at birth, on which the environment writes increasingly complex characteristics and behaviors? Or are we genetic automata whose ...

Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton ...

Discover the intricate dance between genes, environment, and cancer risk explained by Dr. Ashok Venkitaraman in a comprehensive lecture.

THE lecturer spoke of the qualities by which the English men of science of the present day were characterised; he showed the possibility of defining and measuring the amount of any of those ...

The wording of the phrase “nature vs. nurture” makes it seem as though human individuality—personality traits, intelligence, preferences, and other characteristics—must be based on either ...

the study offers a more nuanced perspective on the age-old nature versus nurture debate.