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Resource: Nature vs. Nurture Revisited

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Which dictates our existence -- our genetic makeup or the environment we grow up in? Kevin Davies offers an update on this long-standing debate.

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Teachers' Domain, Nature vs. Nurture Revisited, published September 26, 2003, retrieved on ,
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The Nature versus Nurture debate is a long-standing one among biologists and psychologists. Does Nature (our genes) determine what we become, or does Nurture (our environment)? The answer is obviously both, but as this NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" Web site explains, recent findings have placed a greater emphasis on Nurture.