When we speak of nature and nurture, it is not useful or accurate to think of these two phenomena in opposition. Nature – meaning DNA – has never been versus nurture – meaning everything that isn’t DNA. Our genomes are the totality of our DNA, and that is where our genes are. Nurture – meaning the non-genetic environment – does not mean whether your parents cuddled you or ignored you as a child; it means every interaction between the universe and your cells, including how you were raised, but also everything from the orientation of you as foetus in utero, to the randomness of happenstance,
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