The document discusses the nature vs nurture debate regarding the development of human qualities and behavior. It explores whether qualities are innate or learned from the environment. Examples show that both nature and nurture likely influence behavior. Identical twins with the same DNA can behave differently due to unique life experiences, suggesting nurture plays a role. The debate is not settled, as both genetic and environmental factors seem to impact qualities like homosexuality. In the end, the document concludes that both instinct and external teaching from family and surroundings shape people over their lives.

1. “QUALITIES”
THE
UNSOLVEDSCIENCE
Manvi Jain

2. QUALITIESAND
VALUES
INCULCATION
 Is it that we deny what we are taught by
the instinct about the values and
corresponding behaviours we show in
particular circumstances?
OR
 Is it that ever since we became alive it
was only the external factors in guise of
family and surroundings that taught us
the moral values?

3. Nature
v/s
Nurture
 The nature-nurture debate is concerned
with the relative contribution that both
influencers make to human behaviour,
such as personality, cognitive traits,
qualities and decisive power.
 If it is Nature, why does the child of a
boxer not necessarily inherits the quality
of a boxer?
And
 If it is Nurture, why does a woman after
delivering child automatically acquires
the qualities of a mother?

4. “NATURE,
NATURE”
Nature is what we think of as pre-wiring and is influenced
by genetic inheritance and other biological factors.
TWINS: (Bred in family)
* Identical or (MZ) twins share 100% of their genes.
Ex. Different genders have different choices and values.
* Fraternal or (DZ) twins share 50% of their genes.
CLONES: (Bred in vivo)
“While clones are genetically identical to the original
animal, the similarities end there.”
Source: North Carolina State University
In both the cases, behaviour depends upon their
environment.

5. “NURTURE,
SUPERIOR!”
Nurture assumes that there is a
correlation between
environmental factors and
psychological outcomes for
living beings.
* HIGHEST LEVEL OF
CONSCIOUSNESS:
Development of qualities under
one’s
own control
Ex. High levels of meditation
* INSTANT MOTHERHOOD:
Development of motherly
qualities
in a woman after giving birth

6. “ARGUEMENT”
 Given that heredity and environment both influence
the person we become, which is the more important?
*BEHAVIOURAL EPIGENETICS
 Provides a framework for understanding how the
expression of genes is influenced by experiences and
the environment to produce individual differences
in behaviour.
 Perfect Example- Identical twins:
Although they share exactly the
same DNA, their unique experiences
in life will cause some genes
to express themselves. This is why, over time,
identical twins come to look and behave differently.

7. EXAMPLEOF NATUREV/s NURTURE
HOMOSEXUALITY
 Nature supporters believe that homosexuality is genetic or
outside of a person's control.
 Nurture supporters believe that homosexuality is a choice or a
behaviour influenced by environmental factors.
FACTORS: Both genetic and environmental
Reformulated question -“How much?”
“How much is the effect of the two?”

8. CONCLUSION!
 We move along throughout
our lives with what is taught to
us as kids by instinct!
AND
 It is only the external factors in guise of
family and surroundings who teach us the
moral ways of life throughout the life.