Nature vs. Nurture

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One of the most fruitful methods for studying the comparative influences of nature and nurture has been to study twins. In the groundbreaking 1979 Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, researches attempted to answer many of these questions. Twins, because of their identical genetic make-up, present a unique situation for viewing these sorts of results. The paper shows that this study found that genetics do play a much larger role in defining our characteristics than we might have previously suspected. It discusses the study's findings that intelligence, in particular, was affected by genes to a high degree, a fact that many found surprising.

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"In biology, we could test which traits are the result of the "genotype" and which are the results of "phenotype" by employing such a study. It is easy to do this with physical characteristics, but what might such a study say about the way personalities develops, or other elements, such as intelligence or violent propensities?"

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