Nature and nurture both determine how likely you are to develop a particular disease. Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images Sitting in my doctor’s examination room, I was surprised when she ...

The debate about nature versus nurture goes back to humans’ earliest days of intellectual dispute. Classical Greek thinkers like Plato and Aristotle picked their sides on the causes of human behavior ...

Anne Rice, the author of “Interview with the Vampire” among dozens of other books, spent most of her life in New Orleans. Her son, Christopher, is also a bestselling writer. Anne wrote mainly horror, ...

The impact of nature and nurture on an individual's health is widely recognized, yet a recent study shows one may play a more important role than the other. Researchers from Oxford Population Health ...

In a recent Wall Street Journal column, Heckman contrasts his approach with what he calls the “ZIP code is destiny” approach, which claims that the main factor that determines a child’s outcome in ...

Elite sportsmen share a number of common traits, unsurprisingly including a liking for exercise, enjoying competition and growing up in a sporty family. But is it nature or nurture? However, when it ...