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 ...

The debate about nature versus nurture goes back to humans’ earliest days of intellectual dispute. Classical Greek thinkers like Plato and Aristotle picked their sides on the causes of human behavior ...

Is psychopathy born or bred? Science may finally have the answer thanks to brain scanning technology that reveals anatomical ...

It’s an age-old question: is nature or nurture more responsible for how we turn out in life? Scientists have long believed that some combination of our genes and environment – our diets, lifestyles, ...

For more than a century, scientists have debated whether intelligence is mostly a product of nature or nurture. Identical twins—those born with the same genetic blueprint—have long been the perfect ...