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Originally Posted by Azisien
Actually I am curious. Can you cite some sources on this [a casual nature vs nuture search brings up little]? I have scholarly journal access so go nuts. I am not surprised that social status as a fluffy concept is pretty environmental but overall I haven't heard of such a large consensus.
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I'd have to look them up myself but I did a paper on neuropsych and we had a few weeks on nature/nuture and it was all over this. There is seriously hundreds of studies on this, all coming to about the same conclusion- good places to start are identical twin studies because they have exactly the same genes.
I can try find a review later if I remember, I nominally at work now,. If you bored though, look up any reviews you ca find on twin studies-they are the major area this works in.
Also brain growth in infants but those tend to be much more esoteric.
It also makes sense if you think about it. Gene activity is modified by the environment, biological activity at your core is modified by the environment, and brain growth- which happens for a long long time after you are born- is modified by the environment. It doesn't really make sense for our genes to code for that much..