contemplating this:Which is more influential to whom people become- Genetics (nature) Environment (nurture)

Environment

genetics...i know this for a fact...

What I think Etrain, hey you losing weight?

They both play a part. There are case studies siting one is more influential than the other on both sides. It really comes down to a combination of the 2. I'd go with a 55/45 on the side of nurture.

nope...i've been raising my granddaughter since she was 7 mos old...she saw her "mother" last wk for the first time in 16 mos...but she's always acted just like her mother...

enviornmentally influenced genetics.........

if you raised them both than you're the common nurture element

Sine the question is based on whom they BECOME...
I say environment

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sorry...clarification...she's my son's daughter

Genetically speaking we are born with certain traits, predisposition to certain disease and personality. Can we adjust them? To a certain extent to nurture but more than likely genetics plays a more major role!!!

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good answer..good answer!!!!!! and the studio audience said.....

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Im hoping for a year supply of peanut butter.....

My son was not around his father for most of his life but he shows alot of his fathers ways, I would lean towards nature on that.

Exactly!!! Ive seen it in my own son......and it freaks me out!!! Certain gestures etc.....

well either way, if you knew her mother well enough as a child that you can comment that your granddaughter is "just like her" then you obviously played a part in her childhood and therefore can not say without a doubt that you did not play some part in her forming similar behaviors. If you didn't play that big of a role in the mother's life at that age than you actually have no way of knowing if your granddaughter is actually just like her mother.

basically what I am saying is that you can not prove a theory one way or another based on your personal experience for a number of reasons. One, since you're in the situation you can not be an objective observer, and two, one example can not prove a theory. The most widely accepted answer is somewhere around a combination 60/40 but the side that has the 60 is still debated back and forth.

(sorry I've written more papers on this topic than I can even count haha)

this was settled in a famous 3 stooges short
"Hoi Polloi" Aug. 29, 1935

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmt-UtCSHzg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi_Polloi_%281935_film%29

but you raised both of them so they were raised in a similar enviroment .... just food for thought