Nature And Nurture Argumentative Analysis

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I think nature and nurture has had a very strong impact on development. I believe that nature and nurture starts at birth. “Nature is responsible for the growth of a person from the fetus level until development into a normal adult and Nurture or upbringing and the environmental factors involved in this upbringing” (Mojica, 2017). After watching the video, I’m glad that the twins, finding each other was great. However, I do believe that they were cheating from their true identity. Even though, they both bear some similarity, but there are still many questions that required some answer, such as, who were their birth parents and were they aware of the study?

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