Question

Briefly describe the nature versus nurture debate as you understand it. What is more important nature or nurture? Why? How do you know one is more important?

Answer 1

Nature versus Nurture, as what I understood refers to human behavior i.e. whether a person's genes (nature) influence his/her behavior or his/her upbringing (nurture). here, nature refers to the prenatal characteristics with which an individual is born whereas nurture refers to the surroundings in which his/her upbringing is done.

according to me, Nurture is more important than nature because the influence of genes (heredity) is not fixed and the social environment in which a person lives has a far greater impact on its behavior and life. for example - if a person is successful in his life that does not mean his parents are successful too. it simply means that he had put enough effort to make it happen. another example is that some of the characteristics that are genetically determined like skin color, height, hair color, etc. are strongly influenced by the environmental factors too.

I can infer this (nurture is more important) because I have seen many cases in my real life too where how a person is raised has a greater impact on the life of an individual.