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Been thinking about genetics a lot lately...so is it nature or nurture?
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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 535248" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>I firmly come down in the middle (it's both) too. I'm sure nature plays a huge role and I think research will continue to bear that out. But I don't believe for a minute that nurture doesn't play a huge role too. You can be born with a predisposition to get type 2 diabetes, but if you watch your diet and do all of the right things you can probably avoid getting it. You inherit the potential to reach a certain height, but if your environment (diet, etc.) is not right, you may not get there. You inherit a certain learning potential, but depending on your environment (parents, stimulation, education) you may end up higher or lower. You inherit a family predisposition for alcoholism, but if you never drink, you won't become an alcoholic. The same seems tome to be true of of psychological things. You inherit traits in your genes but for them to develop into their full potential, other factors have to be there. I'm not sure we can entirely get rid of what is in our genes, but we can certainly repress some traits and develop others and end up with somebody very different than what would be there if the nurture side were different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 535248, member: 135"] I firmly come down in the middle (it's both) too. I'm sure nature plays a huge role and I think research will continue to bear that out. But I don't believe for a minute that nurture doesn't play a huge role too. You can be born with a predisposition to get type 2 diabetes, but if you watch your diet and do all of the right things you can probably avoid getting it. You inherit the potential to reach a certain height, but if your environment (diet, etc.) is not right, you may not get there. You inherit a certain learning potential, but depending on your environment (parents, stimulation, education) you may end up higher or lower. You inherit a family predisposition for alcoholism, but if you never drink, you won't become an alcoholic. The same seems tome to be true of of psychological things. You inherit traits in your genes but for them to develop into their full potential, other factors have to be there. I'm not sure we can entirely get rid of what is in our genes, but we can certainly repress some traits and develop others and end up with somebody very different than what would be there if the nurture side were different. [/QUOTE]
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