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Nurture has greater effect than nature, says study
May 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nurture could have an even greater effect than originally thought, according to a University of Manchester study that is set to shake up the ‘nature versus nurture’ debate.
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Honey-bee aggression study suggests nurture alters nature
Aug 17, 2009 |
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A new study reveals that changes in gene expression in the brain of the honey bee in response to an immediate threat have much in common with more long-term and even evolutionary differences in honey-bee aggression. ...
Nature or nurture? New epigenetic model blurs the line in the debate
Jul 21, 2009 |
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A research report published in the July 2009 issue of the journal Genetics complicates the debate over whether nature or nurture plays the most important role in complex diseases such as psychiatric disorders, heart diseas ...
Public says sexuality is predetermined
Jun 28, 2007 |
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A new poll shows 56 percent of people in the United States don't believe a person can change their sexual orientation.
Brain scientists spot nature/nurture gene link
Jul 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory found that a previously unsuspected set of genes links nature and nurture during a crucial period of brain development.
'Nature vs. nurture' study of deceased donor pairs in kidney transplantation
Apr 22, 2009 |
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The implications of a new study could improve the outcomes, and potentially survival rates, for some of the thousands of individuals who undergo kidney transplants each year. The study concluded that donor-related risk factors, ...
'Freaks' help scientist unravel nature and nurture
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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In 1940, a Dutch goat born without front legs learned to walk upright. So did Faith, a two-legged dog in Oklahoma. Johnny Eck, a "half-man" born without legs, grew naturally into a graceful hand-walker.
Gene-environment interaction in yeast gene expression
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Apr 14, 2008 |
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The nature vs. nurture debate is familiar to most people, and modern conclusions usually predict a balance between the two. A new paper published this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology shows that there is a simi ...
Nurture over nature
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Score one for the nurture side of the nature vs. nurture debate, as North Carolina State University geneticists have shown that environmental factors such as lifestyle and geography play a large role in whether certain genes ...
Boys will be boys: kids think gender-related behavior is inborn
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May 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Small children tend to believe boys are born to like football and girls are born to like dolls—much in the same way that cats are born different from dogs, research shows.
Caste in the colony: How fate is determined between workers and queens
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Oct 21, 2008 |
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"The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms…the exploitation of one part of society by the other". – Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
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