Blog #7

Outside of my main internship I spent my spare time researching the nature vs nurture argument. I originally came to this argument a few years ago when my brothers started testing it out on me without me knowing. For context My brothers are 28 and 25 years old. The argument in question is whether kids develop their social skills and traits through the environment they are raised in or if they are passed down through genetics. In my brothers experiments they came to the conclusion that we act more alike through nature, because me and my oldest brother act just alike and even use the same verbiage; even to the point that we both would look each other in the eye and say "meep". Then reading the article I found it interesting that their is an interesting connection between nature and nurture. they then described nurture as being "generally taken as the influence of external factors after conception, e.g., the product of exposure, life experiences, and learning on an individual." They also described nature as "what we think of as pre-writing and is influenced by genetic inheritance and other biological factors." Personally I can't fully believe it all because we begin learning while in the womb so our environment starts shaping our personality before we can test genetics