Nature Theory Essay

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You got your green eyes from your mother, and your freckles from your father but where did you get your thrill-seeking personality and talent for singing? Did you learn these from your parents or was it predetermined by your genes? While it's clear that physical characteristics are hereditary, the genetic waters get a bit more murky when it comes to an individual's (Powell, K., 2006 March 15).
The idea of nature is the hereditary traits and the genes of a person that what he or she inherits from his or her biological parents like for example the height, skin tone or to be more specific the physical features. The Nature Theory takes things a step further to say that more abstract trait such as intelligence, personality, aggression, and sexual orientation are also encoded in an individual's DNA (Powell, 2006 March 15). Therefore, behaviour may not …show more content…

The most debated issue pertaining to the nature theory is the existence of a "gay gene," pointing to a genetic component to sexual orientation (Powell, K., 2006 March 15). ” An April, 1998 article in LIFE Magazine, "Were You Born That Way" by George Howe Colt, claimed that "new studies show it's mostly in your genes." If genetics didn't play a part, then fraternal (non-identical) twins, reared under the same conditions, would be alike, regardless of differences in their genes(Powell, K., 2006 March 15). If genetics didn't play a part, then fraternal (non-identical) twins, reared under the same conditions, would be alike, regardless of differences in their genes (Powell, K., 2006 March 15). But, while studies show they do more closely resemble each other than do non-twin brothers and sisters, they also show these same striking similarities when reared apart - as in similar studies done with identical twins”(Powell, K., 2006 March