The Great Debate: Nature Or Nurture
Kobi Massaro
Ms. Wells
English X Honors
21 October 2013
The Great Debate: Nature or Nurture Humans have debated for the longest time whether nature or nurture has had the most effect in how humans turn out to be and how they act in certain situations. The argument is over whether the genetics of persons determines everything about them, nature, or whether the environment and other people dictate what the original person’s makes of their lives. To prove that nature is the dominate cause, scientist have conducted studies dealing with twins, homosexuals, and disease infected patients showing the strong link between how they were born and how they were during the study. Whereas scientist who believe nurture is the basis for a person’s personality …show more content…
proper manners or fluent English, and negatively effective, e.x. bad hygiene or criminal thoughts. One of the negative effects came from a girl who was isolated from society living her whole life in a single room, tied to a chair which she couldn’t move from. “The police discovered her in 1970 after spending all her life tide to a chair. The result of this [loneliness] was that she was unable to speak, walk, socialize, and generally being normal after being rescued. We can see that due to the fact that she was in an isolated and lonely environment her attitude and personality weren’t usual” (Juan Schinas “Nature vs. Nurture”). With this story scientist argue whether or not a person will develop right if they do not receive the correct type of nurturing, which in this case she didn’t develop correctly. Since this girl didn’t connect with society and other human beings her mental health was where it was for the reason that she never experience positive nurturing from anybody or even anything. This isolation from nurturing shows the severity that a human can obtain if not tended to or interacted with through …show more content…
He cites the example of colon cancer, which is often associated with a defective "colon cancer" gene. Even though some patients carry this mutated gene in every cell, the cancer only occurs in the colon because it is triggered by toxins secreted by bacteria in the gut. Cancer, argues Venter, is an environmental disease. Strong support for this viewpoint appeared last year in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers in Scandinavia studying 45,000 pairs of twins concluded that cancer is largely caused by environmental rather than inherited factors, a surprising conclusion after a decade of headlines touting the discovery of the ‘breast cancer gene,’ the ‘colon cancer gene,’ and many more” (Kevin Posted “Nature vs. Nurture
Ms. Wells
English X Honors
21 October 2013
The Great Debate: Nature or Nurture Humans have debated for the longest time whether nature or nurture has had the most effect in how humans turn out to be and how they act in certain situations. The argument is over whether the genetics of persons determines everything about them, nature, or whether the environment and other people dictate what the original person’s makes of their lives. To prove that nature is the dominate cause, scientist have conducted studies dealing with twins, homosexuals, and disease infected patients showing the strong link between how they were born and how they were during the study. Whereas scientist who believe nurture is the basis for a person’s personality …show more content…
proper manners or fluent English, and negatively effective, e.x. bad hygiene or criminal thoughts. One of the negative effects came from a girl who was isolated from society living her whole life in a single room, tied to a chair which she couldn’t move from. “The police discovered her in 1970 after spending all her life tide to a chair. The result of this [loneliness] was that she was unable to speak, walk, socialize, and generally being normal after being rescued. We can see that due to the fact that she was in an isolated and lonely environment her attitude and personality weren’t usual” (Juan Schinas “Nature vs. Nurture”). With this story scientist argue whether or not a person will develop right if they do not receive the correct type of nurturing, which in this case she didn’t develop correctly. Since this girl didn’t connect with society and other human beings her mental health was where it was for the reason that she never experience positive nurturing from anybody or even anything. This isolation from nurturing shows the severity that a human can obtain if not tended to or interacted with through …show more content…
He cites the example of colon cancer, which is often associated with a defective "colon cancer" gene. Even though some patients carry this mutated gene in every cell, the cancer only occurs in the colon because it is triggered by toxins secreted by bacteria in the gut. Cancer, argues Venter, is an environmental disease. Strong support for this viewpoint appeared last year in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers in Scandinavia studying 45,000 pairs of twins concluded that cancer is largely caused by environmental rather than inherited factors, a surprising conclusion after a decade of headlines touting the discovery of the ‘breast cancer gene,’ the ‘colon cancer gene,’ and many more” (Kevin Posted “Nature vs. Nurture