For centuries, people have drawn a line between nature and nurture. In the 19th century, English polymath Francis Galton cast nature-versus-nurture in scientific terms. He envisioned a battle between ...

Care, encouragement and support are given to someone or something while growing, and studies seem to show that nurture is more important than nature in shaping a child’s character. Nature is a proper ...

TAOS — A pink glow beckons. Visitors remove their shoes and enter a spiral maze of salt and mirrors. In another room, some visitors kneel while others stick burning prayer candles into a sand-filled ...

Are we born or made this way? Short answer: It's both. Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Are we born with our personality characteristics, or do we become who we are because of the world around us? The ...

Is it nature or is it nurture, heredity or society? In that great debate of our time, conservatives lean toward the former and liberals toward the latter. I believe both are asking the wrong question.

Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton ...

This summer, the Coos Watershed Association (CoosWA) offered a “Nature and Nurture” event series that emphasized the scientifically backed connection between human health and environmental health. We ...

Picture a preschool classroom. Now envision it spanning multiple acres across a forest or farm. Add in some pens with a few alpacas, maybe a couple of tottering newborn goats. Imagine a garden full of ...

I remember a time when kids were free to wander. I would vanish from my parents’ world for many hours on end, sometimes crossing the state line or boating across a major river. I discovered nature in ...