Care, encouragement and support are given to someone or something while growing, and studies seem to show that nurture is more important than nature in shaping a child’s character. Nature is a proper ...

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who ...

Star Parker, a columnist for The Daily Signal, is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That ...

Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture Dalton Conley is a professor of sociology at Princeton ...