Nature vs Nurture Debate

People have known for ages that you’re hair color, or you’re skin color, maybe you’re eye color is genetic; it comes from your parents. That’s the Nature. The Nurture in the debate is how you obtained personality traits such as intelligence or aggressiveness, or if a child is a prodigy singer or skilled mathematician, did these things come from your parents, or were you put in environments which lead to your abilities? Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin’s, first came up with this question; he is known to be as one of the most original Victorians. He used groups of identical twins in many of his studies, which was very valuable for his debate of Nature vs. Nurture. A few topics about the debate are aggressiveness, rage, intelligence, hobbies, ticks etc. Some people say that it is genetic; others say that it is because of the environment in which you were born. The overall belief of this is that it is a little bit of both. You can be put into the best learning environment but a little bit of genetics are involved in someone who is very intelligent, or if you have a gene of aggressiveness, your environment also affects this as well. I believe that this debate is a little bit of both, but mostly environmental. If you have an incredibly intelligent gene, but are born into poverty and work in a field every day, you probably won’t develop the great mind that you were born to develop.

Sources:

http://www.victorianweb.org/science/galton.html

http://genealogy.about.com/cs/geneticgenealogy/a/nature_nurture.htm

Darwin and the Origin of Species

     Charles Darwin was born on the 12 of February 1809. He was an English Naturalist who studied animals and their evolution over time. He published the famous book "The Origin of Species Through Natural Selection". Darwin went on an expedition to the Galapagos Islands and began to study many different animals for example birds. He began to ask himself why some of the brids had different beaks, or why some turtules neck would stick up and others would point down. All of this is because of the enviroment in which they live in and the circumstances in which they must obtain food. This was all very difficult to explain becuase this all went against what the church would say. He would say that dinosaurs existed but according to the bible god created humans, and all animals and dinosaurs do not exist. His wife was also extremely religious and so these were all things that made it very difficult for him to prove his point. Basically darwin was "killing god" with his theory, and so that mad it very unpopular because he was going against the church with what he was saying so he had major stress on himself. Also he had to prove everything to the last detail so that maybe some people would believe his words that were speaking against the church.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/darwin/origin/

Psychology

     Psycology is the study of the human mind and behavior. It shows us why we might do some things that we do. The understanding of behavior is what Psycologysts aim to achieve. It's the study of the human mind and its actions. Psycologists aim for the qestion of "why", why and how humans react to situations or instances they are put in. How the mind percieves whats around it and why it reacts to such instances.

http://www.psychnet-uk.com/training_ethics/whatispsych.htm