hi, i would want to know between genetics and enviroment ,which of them that has a greater influence upon the individual when it comes to moulding behaviour in the individual.

-- obinna madueke (tukwitme@yahoo.com), June 13, 2003

Answers

Check the previous posting at http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a- fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=007pL6 where there are several answers to this question.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), June 14, 2003.

Both, of course. To select one as being "greater" you'd have to be able to add the two up, but they don't combine in a simple additive fashion. You simply can't have one without the other. It's like asking "which contibutes more to an object's being three-dimensional, its height, its width, or its length?"

-- Christopher Green (cgreen@chass.utoronto.ca), June 16, 2003.