Nature / Nurture Or Both !
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The controversy over what determines who we are, whether it is Nature
(heredity, our biological make up) or Nurture (our environment) is taking a new
shape. Through the past decades, psychologists have developed different theories
to explain the characteristics of human-beings; how we feel, think a ....
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.... rather than
determinants, not only singly but also in combination. Here below, I will
endeavour to expose the leading theories dealing with the question of nature vs.
nurture. I will also try to present the third, new-emerging approach meant to
solve the mystery of “ What is it that makes us who we are?â€
“Our genes made us. We animals exist for their preservation and are
nothing more than their throwaway survival machines.†This is what Richard
Darwin states in his book: Th ....
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