Created with Sketch. Epigenetics—the science of modifications in how genes are expressed—illustrates the complex interplay between “nature” and “nurture.” An individual’s environment ...

Epigenetics seeks to explain how environment can impact the way in which genes are expressed. Most experts recognize that neither nature nor nurture is stronger than the other. Instead ...

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 ...

Created with Sketch. Epigenetics—the science of modifications in how genes are expressed—illustrates the complex interplay between “nature” and “nurture.” An individual’s environment ...

Hebb replied that the question was akin to asking which feature of a rectangle—length or width—made the most important contribution to its area. The “nature vs. nurture” conundrum was reinvigorated ...

The phrase “nature versus nurture” refers to a long-standing debate in human biology: to what extent is our behaviour shaped by our genes (nature) or by the environment in which we grow up and ...

The turning on of this single gene results in an apparent freak of nature. Mice whose agouti ... been a great animal model with which to study epigenetics and fetal programming.

Identical twins separated at birth give us insights into the interplay between genetic and environmental influences on our behaviour and our traits. These twin studies help scientists like Dr ...

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 ...

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 ...