An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child's ...

Care, encouragement and support are given to someone or something while growing, and studies seem to show that nurture is more important than nature in shaping a child’s character. Nature is a proper ...

By Kathy Gaillard             Darryl Davidson’s father was in the Air Force, but in addition to service to his country, he noticed and admired all the men in his life […] ...

Blame it on your parents (nature). Blame it on your friends (nurture). But, in truth, you can probably blame your personality on both. Is the development of human personalities the result of inherited ...

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who ...

Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton ...

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain's visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a ...

For years, researchers have debated how our brains consistently develop areas specialized for recognizing faces, objects, ...