Nature vs. Nurture: Mysteries of Individuality Unraveled | LiveScience

Nature vs. Nurture: Mysteries of Individuality Unraveled
By Jeanna Bryner, Special to LiveScience

Is it just coincidence that Bobby Bonds and his son Barry both made baseball history with their all-star power and speed? Or that Francis Ford Coppola and daughter Sofia rose to fame as award-winning film directors?
Questions like these have long plagued psychologists, geneticists and philosophers.
Coined nature versus nurture, it is one of the great mysteries of the mind, and much research has focused on the relative role of genes and the environment in determining everything from athleticism to personality to a person's predisposition to obesity.

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