nature versus nurture

短语

别名

nature vs nurture nature vs. nurture

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    Comparing how a person's characteristics are formed, either by innate biological factors such as genetics (nature), or by upbringing and life experience (nurture).

词源

The phrase was coined in the mid-1800s by the English Victorian polymath Francis Galton in discussion about the influence of heredity and environment on social advancement.

来源：wiktionary