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The debate between "blank-slate" denial of the influence of heritability, and the view admitting both environmental and heritable traits, has often been cast in terms of nature versus nurture. These two conflicting approaches to human development were at the core of an ideological dispute over research agendas throughout the second half of the ...
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature is a 1984 book by the evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin, the neurobiologist Steven Rose, and the psychologist Leon Kamin, in which the authors criticize sociobiology and genetic determinism and advocate a socialist society. Its themes include the relationship between biology and ...
Monophysitism (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ f ɪ s aɪ t ɪ z əm / mə-NOF-ih-seye-tih-zəm [1]) or monophysism (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ f ɪ z ɪ z əm / mə-NOF-ih-zih-zəm; from Greek μόνος monos, "solitary" [2] and φύσις physis, "nature") is a Christological doctrine that states that there was only one nature—the divine—in the person of Jesus Christ, who was the incarnated Word. [3]
In the context of the nature-nurture debate, interactionism is the view that all human behavioral traits develop from the interaction of both "nature" and "nurture", that is, from both genetic and environmental factors.
Arguments about human nature have been a central focus of philosophy for centuries and the concept continues to provoke lively philosophical debate. [1] [2] [3] While both concepts are distinct from one another, discussions regarding human nature are typically related to those regarding the comparative importance of genes and environment in ...
In the Sophist tradition, the term stood in opposition to nomos (νόμος), "law" or "custom", in the debate on which parts of human existence are natural, and which are due to convention. [1] [8] The contrast of physis vs. nomos could be applied to any subject, much like the modern contrast of "nature vs. nurture".
These letters are responding to a story in The Tennessean about a "Faith and State" panel on Jan. 10 at the Tennessee State Capitol. Readers debate if government leaders should let faith guide ...
The belief in biological determinism was matched in the 20th century by a blank slate denial of any possible influence of genes on human behaviour, leading to a long and heated debate about "nature and nurture". By the 21st century, many scientists had come to feel that the dichotomy made no sense.