Are we prisoners to our genes or do we just conform to our environment? That is the major question behind the “nature vs. nurture” debate. Do we become human by our upbringing in society or are we naturally suppose to have the instincts born in us to develop to become human? That is the nature vs nurture debate. The debate of nurture says we develop from our environment, and it has cause to say so. For example, the orphans that were placed with women in a institution to be raised. Those orphans showed much higher IQ levels than the other orphans that were raised in the orphan home when they grew up. The ones that were placed with the women grew up to hold better jobs, and also receive better educations. There is also the example of the “wild children,” or isolated kids; like Victor, Genie, Isabelle, and Anna. Victor grew up in the forest and acted accordingly. He had no social skills and did not know how to communicate with other humans. His teacher had little success with conforming him to present day society. Anna and Isabelle were a little different. Anna made more progress, yet never fully recovered. Isabelle recovered fully from being 6 ½ years in isolation. Genie was also another girl that was isolat
There is also the nature debate. One example are the twins experiment. There were two identical twins were separated at birth and then brought back together years later. They didn’t even know each other existed. They both had some habits in common, which is unusual because they didn’t even know each other. This also suggests genes were in work in their lives. Their is also the "medical accident" example. The child had no idea that he was actually a boy, but the child knew their was something different about him. When finally told, he wanted to change back and he did.
Now some people seem to rise above their bonds and chains and make something of themselves, while some people can’t. Take Isabelle for example: little girl, isolated for the better part of her developmental years, and grows up to be what we would call normal. Then there is Victor, who basically had the same conditions as Isabelle and he grew up and learned a few things, but never recovered to the station in life that he could have had if he had grew up in society from birth. These examples also apply to humans today. Some people doesn’t have what it takes, and some do. It may be due to the fact that some were raised with a high self-esteem while others were discourages at things they did. Support and encouraging is a basi
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