A prolific science journalist challenged conventional wisdom on human behavior determination in a lecture Tuesday before a large audience in McCosh 50. "Genes are at the mercy of our experience," said ...

The question of whether human behavior is driven by innate biological forces or the product of our learning and environment has been a popular discussion at cocktail parties and scientific conferences ...

During the holiday break, my extended family (i.e., my parents and three brothers and their wives and children) got together at a large ranch house in the North Carolina mountains. We had a good time ...

How does a robotic arm or a prosthetic hand learn a complex task like grasping and rotating a ball? Researchers address the classic 'nature versus nurture' question. The research demonstrates that the ...

For more than a century, scientists have debated whether intelligence is mostly a product of nature or nurture. Identical twins—those born with the same genetic blueprint—have long been the perfect ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

When I was a lad in medicine, the great debate was over "Nature vs. Nurture." We were taught the prevailing wisdom that there were aspects of our lives that were determined by our genetic code and ...

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain’s visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a ...

The many lessons of Jeanette Walls' “The Glass Castle” become evident while reading the winning entries in the 2008 Cayuga Reads competition. Writers in the student and adult categories focused their ...