Who Killed Nature Vs Nurture
Princess J. Waring
Strayer University

This assignment will discuss nature vs nurture my research will touch on the Nature vs nurture controversy. There is some debate that nature vs nurture is separable and hence as comparable. There are some who believe that nature vs nurture is “transmission of something biological”, the hard inheritance of “fixed entities” rather than “malleable (or soft) particles” {p. 21f}. There is some variation that arises from inherited differences {some parents pass on smart genes to their kids? some parents may pass on books known as environmental difference. {Orr 2003, cited in Keller p. 3}

Changing the debate and the question Keller believed in behavior genetics which James Tabery called the “defense-by-distinction’. These were standard response of behavioral geneticists although there critics didn’t believe they were able to make any connection between individual development or cause or differences in a population {Tabery 2007}. This view was of behavioral genetics is based on false opinions of a quantitative report on genetic an environmental contribution sheds some light on the developmental process. There were some findings {that the heritability of personality traits increases over the lifespan}. {Gottlieb 2003, 338}

Beyond interactionism and dichotomous thinking

As several researcher disbelieve the theory of nature vs nurture had no distinction which was call the ‘environmental programming’ of behavior through DNA methylation “life at the interface between a dynamic environment and a fixed genome” {Meaney and Szyf 2005}.

This article is discussing the different opinions between scholars as to nature vs nurture some believe this is due to genetic heredity or some chemical imbalance involving the DNA structure. This discussion is continuous as no two scholars can completely agree on their findings it is believed that criminals such as murders rapist and repeated offenders fall under the nature vs nurture theory.

Keller’s concludes that behavior genetics is heritability, implications of individual traits because the meaning of the term is uncontrollable, the dual implication of heritability—of transmission from generation to generation both of genes and of genetic variance. Keller truly believed that nature vs nurture is passed on through genetics. Keller (p.71)

This article is fits the overall field of psychology as it refers to genetics biological chemical imbalance in the brain. Scholars who have researched this article have different views and opinions as to how nature vs nurture effects individuals in their daily lives, but we do know it exist in this article Keller’s arguments are more profound as she believes it’s a behavioral genetic , heritability—of transmission from generation to generation. Keller also regards in terms of relative contribution of genes and environment, but not the developmental interaction.

This article is from scholar periodicals and is fact whereas magazines and newspapers are more of non-facture information not saying it’s not true there are not true studies or research done on their information. The information reported in magazines are article written with no backup research to verify the information same with newspapers articles.

1. Keller p. 7.., p. 21 2. Tabery (2007) 3. {Meaney and Szyf 2005 4. Gottlieb 2003, 338 5. Orr 2003, cited in Keller p. 3