Heredity or Environment

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Heredity or Environment The question about importance of heredity and environment in shaping an individual still has some contradictions. So which one is more important? To my mind, both nature and nurture are considerable when it comes to forming an identity but still nurture plays a bigger part. There is some evidence that it would be easier to find this out for sure, if scientists did several experiments with twins. As we know twins look alike, and they think alike so they usually have similar IQs. But would their IQs be similar if they were grown in different environments? I think it depends on how great the difference is. The smaller is the contrast, the bigger is the similarity. The same thing we can say about belief system and personality. For instance, if both children were put in protestant families, the reliability that they would have similar opinions on religious questions is very high. Sometimes this topic about heredity and environment reminds me the question about biological parents and parents who adopted a child. How do you think who are the real ones? I believe that parents that adopted the child are true parents because they take care of the child and grow him or her up. The same thing is about nature and nurture. Child’s heredity plays the role in shaping its identity but the environment is much more important. To conclude, there are some ambiguities about this topic and sometimes I hesitate about it but anyway my opinion is that environment influences the child more than its heredity. Especially it’s not only about IQ level, but more about child’s beliefs and

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