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Nature vs Nurture arguments always suffer from a reductionism problem by assuming there's a dichotomy between the two, which owes its origin to a feeling of exceptionalism that separates anything Human from anything Natural. In fact, nurture is a subcategory of nature, and there is a complex intertwined relationship between genetic and cultural heredity. Trying to reduce it to a debate between one or the other will poison one's understanding before even getting started.


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