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Nature vs. Nurture

The authors consider the implications of the longstanding nature vs. nurture debate. Racial intolerance is often predicated on the assumption that racial differences are biological and immutable. The authors challenge those assumptions by arguing that the most important distinctions between people are sociological and are therefore modifiable. Also, historically noteworthy achievements are the result of six sociological success factors (Preparation, Adversity, Innovation, Obstinacy, Serendipity and Notoriety) rather than the innate superiority of one group or another.

Nature vs. nurture.

This article provides a description of a number of topics related to genetics and psychology in order to facilitate a greater understanding of the nature vs. nurture debate. The article describes the types of psychological traits and behaviors that are studied by the field of behavior genetics, includes a brief review of human genetics, and provides an overview of the basic behavior genetic findings that are relevant to psychological traits. The text highlights the importance of the interplay of genetic and environmental factors, while reviewing the research methods that behavior geneticists use to simultaneously study environmental and genetic factors. Finally, the article addresses some of the social concerns surrounding behavior genetic research. The text stresses the need to study how genetic and environmental factors act and interact to influence psychological traits.

The Scarlet Letter: Nature vs. Nurture

The article focuses on the importance of place and how it informs the narrative in The ScarletLetter. Each major place is considered: the town, the governor’s mansion, and the forest. Examining thecharacters of the novel and their response to nature and culture shows how they identify and react to theirmoral identity. The juxtaposition of characters like Pearl, Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Mr. Wilson, andtheir varied surroundings offers unique critical study. By looking at how we respond to place, we can cometo a greater understanding of the contrast and comparison of nature versus culture and ultimately how wedefine each.

Nature vs. Nurture vs. NASA.

The article discusses a yearlong study by U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) scientists on the effect of space travel on human health, during which identical twin astronaut Scott Kelly will live on the International Space Station (ISS) for one year beginning in March 2015. Scientists will observe changes in his genetic expression in the zero-gravity environment compared to that of his brother and fellow astronaut Mark Kelly's while on earth.

Determining Nature vs. Nurture

Roundup: Nature vs. Nurture

Nature vs. Nurture Revisited

Nature vs. Nurture in Discrete Spin Dynamics

The problem of predictability, or "nature vs. nurture", in both ordered and disordered Ising systems following a deep quench from infinite to zero temperature is reviewed. Two questions are addressed. The first deals with the nature of the final state: for an infinite system, does every spin flip infinitely often, or does every spin flip only finitely many times, or do some spins flip infinitely often and others finitely often? Once this question is determined, the evolution of the system from its initial state can be studied with attention to the issue of how much information contained in the final state depends on that contained in the initial state, and how much depends on the detailed history of the system. This problem has been addressed both analytically and numerically in several papers, and their main methods, results, and conclusions will be reviewed. The discussion closes with some open problems that remain to be addressed.

Nature vs. Nurture: the Making of the Montado Ecosystem

The southern Iberian Peninsula is dominated by a savannah-like ecosystem, the montado, which is a typically Mediterranean cultural adaptation to generally poor productive areas. Montados are exploited for three main uses: forestry, agriculture, and extensive grazing, in proportions that vary according to local conditions (more or less productive land) and historical circumstances. Because these ecosystems occur over a large geographic area (they occupy some 6 million ha), biodiversity would be expected to vary among montados. However, differences in management practices may also influence species distribution. In this paper, we investigate differences in plant and bird species diversity among 60 montados distributed all across southern Portugal. The environmental variables studied included geographical coordinates, climatological data, soil type, and altitude. We also investigated agro-economic variables that could describe human activities at each site: animal husbandry (breeds, stock density, grazing rotati

Nurture vs. nature : The genetics and epigenetics of exercise