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Nature and Nurture

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The nature-nurture question asks how far human behavior is shaped by inheritance and how far by social learning; sociology studies the second without denying the first.

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Twin studies find both a heritable component and large differences traced to upbringing.

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The evidence supports interaction, and the framing as a contest is itself the error.

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