Nature Vs. Identure: Nature Vs. Nurture?

A long debate, are you made who you are or born that way. Nature vs Nurture has been a long debate where psychologists and biologist are trying to figure out if you are made into the person you are or born, there is many different documented cases and experiments along with a long study on criminals to decide if what they did was purely biological or previous events made them do it.

In recent history scientists have focused on aspects of intelligence, aggression and sexual orientation. But when you look all the way back the person who first started this debate was Francis Galton with his work like Natural Intelligence, as he believed intelligence was inherited. The nurture theory was first defined by John Locke an English philosopher and
We have to ask ourselves the same question. Did it have to do with something in their childhood or was they just pre-rendered that way. In 1870 the father of criminology Cesare Lombroso, he was convinced that criminals were de-evolving humans, a step down the evolutionary ladder, he was so convinced that you thought you could tell a criminal by they shape of their face and their long ape like arms. But of course it wasn’t that easy, it isn’t until 1980 when brain scans were revolutionized that we started to see what was going on in there heads. British neuroscientist Professor Adrian Raine began scanning murderers brains and over many years and they all showed that there was reduced activity in the pre-frontal cortex, this part of the brain controls our emotions and impulses. so with this it shows that they are more prone to rage and anger and also making them less able to control themselves.A lot of criminals can link there abuse as a child to their crimes. Such as Jerry Brudos, whose mother hated him because she wanted a girl abused him as a child. At age 17, he abducted and beat a young woman, threatening to stab her if she did not follow his sexual demands Shortly after being arrested, he was taken to a psychiatric ward of Oregon State Hospital for nine months. There it was found his sexual fantasies revolved around his hatred and revenge against his mother and women in general. He also underwent a
Genes have an influence on the environments we experience. At the same time, a person’s environment and experience can directly change the level at which certain genes are expressed, which in turn alters both the physical structure and activity of the brain. Given this modern understanding, the question of nature versus nurture ceases even to make sense in many ways. As an example, consider the developmental pathway a 10-year-old boy might have taken to eventually presenting to a mental health professional for high levels of aggressive behavior. He may have inherited a genetically-based temperamental predisposition to being aggressive. As a young child, that tendency to become irritable and angry would then often evoke more negative responses in other people such as parents, who may themselves struggle with controlling their own anger. These interactions begin to snowball, affecting his schoolwork and friendships and, through epigenetic mechanisms, all of these experiences cause this child’s brain to grow