Nature Vs. Nurture
Date Submitted: 08/12/2004 17:34:41
<Tab/>The argument over the relative importance of nature (genetics) and nurture (environment) in determining human traits has long and fruitless. Many scholars have participated in it over centuries, including such unprecedented philosophers as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. The problem is that most of the debate has continued either with a simply divisive view of the question, or with a lack of related empirical evidence. The controversy has in fact
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