Nature versus nurture? It’s not that simple.

“A University of British Columbia and Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT) study has revealed that childhood poverty, stress as an adult, and demographics such as age, sex and ethnicity, all leave an imprint on a person’s genes. And, that this imprint could play a role in our immune response.

The study was published last week…” story continued here at ScienceDaily.

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One Response to Nature versus nurture? It’s not that simple.

  1. MST says:

    Interesting and very sad, when you consider that so many people in the world grow up in terrible, desperately poor environments. I read that 1 billion people (at least) live on one dollar a day. One thing I would like to know is — what the heck is a Mowafaghian Scholar?

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