It is common knowledge that certain physical traits are inherited based strictly on your individual genetic makeup. “This holds true for traits such as blood type and eye color, but not so for a trait such as height (Glass, 1999)”. Height is not determined based on your genetic makeup alone but is also influenced by other environmental conditions. “These conditions vary from one’s childhood nutrition to what the conditions in the womb were (Glass, 1999)”.

“Genetic studies currently being conducted are proving that human characteristics once thought of as products of one’s childhood rearing are ac

Nurture has a definite impact in certain matters. For instance when one is a child they learn not to touch the stove after getting burned once or twice. No child is born with the knowledge to not touch the stove. Along with the stove example are countless other ways we learn from our environment. One of these is we don’t learn to play in the shade until after that first excruciating sunburn. These examples prove that nurture does play a big role in how we develop and that the environment we live in, and what happens to us on a daily basis teaches us how to handle the various different situations life hands us.

It is my belief that both nature and nurture together help shape human behavior. I believe that nature and nurture combined help us determine our path in life. Nature is simply what we are born with and can’t control. You can’t control it if you are born with a bad y chromosome and spend your life in a wheelchair. Genes only determine our basic physical and mental characteristics which influences how other people react to and treat us. We learn through ou

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