Salvaging the Nature-Nurture Debate. When people talk about “nature” and “nurture,” they are not always aiming to understand the causal processes that lead traits to form within individuals.

Nature and nurture. In the nature versus nurture debate, nature refers to an individual’s innate qualities, while nurture refers to personal experiences (for example), empiricism or behaviourism.

Nature and nurture. The other side of sociogenomics examines how the environment moderates what’s called “gene expression”. This is the process by which genes are “activated” to synthesise proteins ...

Nurture Nature Center’s docent Jeff Mucklin explains how a smiley face fireworks is made with different chemicals that burn different colors in a mortar Wednesday, July 2, 2025, during an event hosted ...

The findings, published in Nature Human Behaviour, reveal that while key aspects of brain organization are present from birth, there's also significant capacity for flexibility and development ...

The relative importance of nature and nurture to how a child develops has been debated for centuries and has had strong influences on public policy. The well-intentioned Head Start program, ...

A: Although the simple biological fact (nature) of being born male increases boys’ and men’s overall health risks, the behavioral choices (nurture) they make are at least as important.

Nature. While there's no doubt nurture has an essential role to play in creating the greatest investors of all time, nature, or one's DNA, arguably plays an even greater role.

A clash between nature and nurture happens in these dazzling paintings, where our origins and connection to Earth are ...

Nature and Nurture: 8 Picture Books for Earth Day. Andrea Wang, Jason Chin, Travis Jonker, Grant Snider, Juana Martinez-Neal, Corinna Luyken and others depict our symbiotic relationship with the ...

Select any two people at random from amongst the eight billion humans alive today, and you are likely to find a great many points of moral agreement alongside a similarly large number of moral ...