Comments on: Steve Jobs’ Birth Father and Nature vs. Nurture

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:59:26 +0000

Dude,
I am adopted. Found my birthparents. Basically, everyone, I mean EVERYONE is in denial about how powerful genetics are, especially to your personality. We are no different than animals that are bred for characteristics. People need to get over it.

Have you considered you might have the majority of your expressed genes from an uncle or a grandparent? It is more common than you think. People who get lost on the road of “but I’m not like my parents” fail to consider this.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:59:26 +0000

By: Fredric Alan Maxwell

Fredric Alan Maxwell — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 06:20:56 +0000

You might wanna read Born To Rebel by, I think Frank Sulloway. He details that the main determinate of character is … birth order.

By: Fredric Alan Maxwell

Fredric Alan Maxwell — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:20:56 +0000

You might wanna read Born To Rebel by, I think Frank Sulloway. He details that the main determinate of character is … birth order.

By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:21:32 +0000

The Nature vs. Nature debate has always intrigued me — particularily because I don’t think it’s a debate that will ever be fully resolved.

Consider some of the bizarre results of studies involving identical twins separated at birth and raised by different adoptive families, then later reunited as adults.

Case in point — James Springer and James Lewis, who shared the following traits:

* Both had married twice. Their first wife was named Linda and their second wife was named Betty.
* both named their sons - James Allen.
* both enrolled as Police Officers at the same time.
* both named their dogs “Troy.”
* both vacationed each year on the same stretch of beach in Florida.
* both drank the same brand of beer and smoked the same brand of cigarettes.
* both had the same hobby, which was woodworking.

Then you look at other sets of identical twins, raised by their biological parents in the same home, and you see startling differences. There are at least two cases of identical twins where one twin is happy with the biological sex but the other feels that he/she was meant to be the opposite sex and then goes through a sex change.

What’s so puzzling is that trivial things like naming seem to be genetically passed on, whereas something as integral as gender orientation appears to be flexible.

By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:21:32 +0000

The Nature vs. Nature debate has always intrigued me -- particularily because I don't think it's a debate that will ever be fully resolved.

Consider some of the bizarre results of studies involving identical twins separated at birth and raised by different adoptive families, then later reunited as adults.

Case in point -- James Springer and James Lewis, who shared the following traits:

* Both had married twice. Their first wife was named Linda and their second wife was named Betty.
* both named their sons - James Allen.
* both enrolled as Police Officers at the same time.
* both named their dogs "Troy."
* both vacationed each year on the same stretch of beach in Florida.
* both drank the same brand of beer and smoked the same brand of cigarettes.
* both had the same hobby, which was woodworking.

Then you look at other sets of identical twins, raised by their biological parents in the same home, and you see startling differences. There are at least two cases of identical twins where one twin is happy with the biological sex but the other feels that he/she was meant to be the opposite sex and then goes through a sex change.

What's so puzzling is that trivial things like naming seem to be genetically passed on, whereas something as integral as gender orientation appears to be flexible.