Through the looking glass From: Minnesota Monthly | Date: August 1, 2002| Author: Rayl, A J S | Copyright Minnesota Monthly Publications Aug 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Why are we the way we are?

Is it because of our childhood? What we inherited?

For the last several hundred years, philosophers and scientists have been trying to answer that seemingly simple question. Historically, they have moved from the assumption that we are a product either of our heredity or our environment-a premise that turned into the nature versus nurture debate. Throughout history, our genetics or our childhood has been alternately praised and blamed for everything ...

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