Dr. Bruce Lipton, an American developmental biologist who is widely known for promoting the idea that genes and DNA can be manipulated by a person’s environmental factors and personal beliefs, once said, “Genes load the gun, but environment pulls the trigger.” The debate of Nature versus Nurture has been a timeless controversy over whether or not Nature, in reference “to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are- from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics” (Cherry), or Nurture, “refers to all of the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture” (Cherry). In Barbara Kingsolver's
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Though this is not the case, later on throughout the novel readers learn that, “... an injury to the brain occurring is early as mine should have no lasting effects on physical mobility. He insists there should have been complete compensation in the undamaged part of my cerebral cortex, and that my dragging right side is merely holding on to a habit it learned in infancy” (Kingsolver), asserting the point that although the nature of her genetics have caused her to lose control over the right side of her body in the first place, it was in fact the environment that she was raised in that caused her to still walk with a limp. Ever since she was born she was known as the crippled of the family, they have beat that way of thinking so far into her that she actually caused herself to become physically crippled, “the effects of the childhood environment, favorable or unfavorable, interact with all the processes of neurodevelopment” (Perry), since argument of Nature Versus Nurture is “rarely viewed with complete neutrality” (Perry), I will give give both sides a fighting chance to conclude that we are either a product of the genes we have been given or that we are a product of our
Though this is not the case, later on throughout the novel readers learn that, “... an injury to the brain occurring is early as mine should have no lasting effects on physical mobility. He insists there should have been complete compensation in the undamaged part of my cerebral cortex, and that my dragging right side is merely holding on to a habit it learned in infancy” (Kingsolver), asserting the point that although the nature of her genetics have caused her to lose control over the right side of her body in the first place, it was in fact the environment that she was raised in that caused her to still walk with a limp. Ever since she was born she was known as the crippled of the family, they have beat that way of thinking so far into her that she actually caused herself to become physically crippled, “the effects of the childhood environment, favorable or unfavorable, interact with all the processes of neurodevelopment” (Perry), since argument of Nature Versus Nurture is “rarely viewed with complete neutrality” (Perry), I will give give both sides a fighting chance to conclude that we are either a product of the genes we have been given or that we are a product of our