" (65). I have already adopted my own opinion on this fact through other classes that I have taken. That opinion being that we become who we are by both genetic influences, but mostly by external or non-genetic influences such as environment and social economic influences. This book refers back to the debate of nature versus nurture, nature, as I understand, referring to the traits, capacities and limitations that we inherit from our parents to include but not limited to body type, sex, and genetic diseases. But I also feel that nature is also responsible, to a point, for other areas such as personality and how social we are, to our tendency for depression. Nurture being the environmental influences beginning as soon as conception where our genes are subject to environmental influence through our mothers. The environmental influences can be as subtle as what our mothers eat (toxins and nutrition), to how they emotionally feel (stress) during the time we are in the womb, and continue on after our birth in the form of the care and environmental conditions we are raised in during infancy, early childhood, adolescence, early adulthood and even continuing on through adulthood. Such.
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influences include exposure to toxins, nutrition, stress, climate, learning experiences, and emotional support in the form encouragement. So where does nature end and nurture begin? .
First Steps (66) describes to us the very earliest stages of brain development and how chemical environment regulates the proteins that in turn, turn our genes on and start the process of brain development. Even here at this early stage of brain development environmental influences can have an effect. But this section also states that the young embryo also lacks sensory systems so how can the environment affect the embryo? This can take place via the mother, what she eats, the type of toxins she introduces into her system which cross over to the embryo and could possibly affect the chemical balance in which regulate the genes during brain development.
