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 ...

By showing that the brain has innate organizing principles that guide but do not rigidly determine its functional ...

Over time, these genetic tendencies get reinforced by the environments we shape for ourselves. The curious kid seeks out ...

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 ...

Genetics research is the scientific discipline concerned with the study of the role of genes in traits such as the development of disease. It has a key role in identifying potential targets for ...

Two papers in Nature now reveal that a glue degrader and cancer mutations enable an E3 ligase to recognize the same target protein through a convergent binding mode, which could inform discovery ...

A study recently published in the prestigious journal Nature ... versus nurture” debate. It suggests environmental factors influence health and longevity to a far greater extent than genetics.

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And she turned to what she knew and loved the most and founded the Nature + Nurture bookstore in downtown Salem. “This whole time my kids and I were still reading together and doing these things, and ...

Robert Plomin is a pioneer of modern behaviour genetics and Blueprint is unabashedly an exercise in cheerleading for the field. His enthusiasm can be contagious and his exposition of the surprising ...