Do you think that behavior is due to environmental factors (nurture) or innate tendencies (nature)? Provide an example of a behavioral characteristic and explain how it may have developed through the influence of experience, heredity, or both.

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Physiological psy DQ1

Assignment 2: Nature vs. Nurture

 

Do you think that behavior is due to environmental factors (nurture) or innate tendencies (nature)? Provide an example of a behavioral characteristic and explain how it may have developed through the influence of experience, heredity, or both.

 

Next, considering Darwin’s principle of natural selection, give 2 examples of structural or behavioral characteristics that might confer selective advantages to human beings over other animals.