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Nature-nurture issue

nature-nurture issue

A controversy concerning the relative importance of heredity (nature) and environment (nurture) in various aspects of individual development, such as intelligence, personality, or mental illness.


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Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation

... our humanity that I think evolutionary psychology threatens, my primary issue is with love and human relationships. Evolutionary psychology might ... neither evolution nor God are responsible for making us the way we act. Nature may have a way of making all intelligent beings similar in a lot of ...

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by jeremyo
Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:12 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation
Replies: 3
Views: 133

Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?

... that defy evolution with our current scientific understanding of the issue. http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/books/philosophy/Natural_selection.pdf ... abruptness of this formative event..." (Gould, Stephen J., Nature, vol. 377, October 1995, p.682.) "The Cambrian explosion was ...

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by gamila
Mon May 18, 2009 12:43 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Replies: 106
Views: 16654

Natural selection is proven wrong

... one of them has anything to do with science. If you want to push this issue, find sources from respectable biologists with PhDs or at least MS ... "naturally selected" are actually remaining alive longer than nature intended and thus having problems that aboriginal humans never had ...

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by alextemplet
Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:44 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16272

How Bacteria and Viruses work.. in the Nervous system

... and most bacteria have some favorite spots) On that note, this month's issue of Nature shows that prions move from one cell to another through the newly discovered tunnelling ...

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by MrMistery
Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:21 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: How Bacteria and Viruses work.. in the Nervous system
Replies: 6
Views: 742

Systems Biology

... for computers and I'm not that terrible in math/physics. My only issue is my background. I don't come from an engineering/comp-sci background. ... in biology research - I have 3 co-authored publications (one of them in Nature Chemical Biology). My GPA is competitive, but not super high (3.36)... ...

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by rogelio
Sun Nov 09, 2008 5:55 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Systems Biology
Replies: 1
Views: 364
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