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Nature versus nurture is a long-standing debate in biology and society about the relative influence on human beings of their genetic inheritance (nature) and the environmental conditions of their development .
Historically, interactionism has presented a limited view of the manner in which behavioral traits develop, and has simply demonstrated that "nature" and "nurture" are both necessary. [3] Among the first biologists to propose an interactionist theory of development was Daniel Lehrman. [4]
The nature–culture divide is the notion of a dichotomy between humans and the environment. [1] It is a theoretical foundation of contemporary anthropology that considers whether nature and culture function separately from one another, or if they are in a continuous biotic relationship with each other.
In the latter half of the twentieth century, social scientists debated whether human behaviour was the product of nature (genes) or nurture (environment in the developmental period, including culture). An example of interaction (as distinct from the sum of the components) involves familiarity from childhood.
The primary bond in the Navajo kinship system is the mother-child bond, and it is in this bond that the nature and meaning of kinship become clear. In Navajo culture, kinship means intense, diffuse, and enduring solidarity, and this solidarity is realized in actions and behavior befitting the cultural definitions of kinship solidarity.
Matt Ridley suggests in Nature via Nurture (2003) [31] the diversity of the human species is not hard-wired in the genetic code, environments are critical. Nature is not at the expense of nurture, nor is nurture at the expense of nature, there is room for both; they work together. Genes are cogs in the machine, not gods in the sky.
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qh438.5 .r535 2003 Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes us Human is a 2003 book by Matt Ridley , in which Ridley discusses the interaction between environment and genes and how they affect human development.