Are Humans a Product of Nature or Nurtue?

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Are humans a product of Nature or Nurture? In this essay, I am going to be discussing whether we, as humans, are a product of Nature or Nurture. Nature is what our surroundings are, in the Oxford English Dictionary, Nature is described as ‘the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations.’ Nurture however is the caring for and encouraging the growth and development of someone or something. This is a different context as nature is in our surroundings and is actual physical formations; nurture on the other hand is the care, growth and development of our surroundings, an example of nurture could be a mother raising her child. Some people may believe that we are a part of nature only because humans and nature ‘can’t be separated’ because we fundamentally affect it in all situations, and that we are an important part of the Planet Earth’s eco-system. This may be believed because we as humans are one of the biggest and most intelligent species on this planet, and anything that we do will affect our nature for both plants and animals. Some people may believe that we are part of nature as we are humans because of our genes. However, others may disagree with this as people believe that we live apart from nature as we can’t be considered as part of nature as we destroy it, for example; Pollution. Some people may believe that we are classified as a product of Nurture because of our experiences and the environment we grow up in. Nurture may be considered as it is categorised above Behaviourism (All behaviour is learned from the environment through conditioning), for example, a feral child; this may be an example because children that are brought up by animals for a certain amount of time, tend to behave in the same way as the animal they have
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