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Does Culture and Environment influence Human Development more that our genes? This question has been researched and research time and time again. Have we found an answer? Paul Ehrlich and Marcus Feldman says "yes", while Gary Marcus says "no". The question I want to know is does anyone really knows the answer to this.
Ehrlich and Marcus argue that human behavior exhibts such compesity that genetic prgrams simply cnat expalin the way people develop. This side of the story makes sense. Genetics is a trciky thing, you never know how someone is going to act intil it is done. Marcus argues that research clearly demonstrates how a relatively small numer of genes influnce our environment learning by "cascading" to determine the paths of out behavioral development. He is trying to say that the environemnt that we are in our genes will automaticly start and let us know what to do.
The two sides of the agreements had some good points and bad points as well. I can see how both......

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