But is it the cat's own work ethic or its training regimen — nature or nurture — that makes an agility champion?
It may be via sperm, or it may be through some more complicated dance of nature and nurture that involves sperm but also other factors.
"It had to do with the intellectual distinction of the people around us, the nurture that came from new friendships and a vivid environment".
Bunny, the angel child embodying the helpless infantile dependence upon maternal nurture that never totally leaves us, is, from his older brother's point of view, a tyrannical rival.
Alan is the product of an unfortunate combination of nature and nurture that has left him with an inability to manage even the most minor frustration.
He is terrific, too, on the intricate interplay between heredity and environment, between nature and nurture, that goes into the making of us all.
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As women, we need to promote that, emphasize that, and nurture that.
Is it nature or nurture that is driving our increasingly short attention spans and need for distractions?
Hannah Holmes explores the blend of nature and nurture that makes each of us extraordinary -- and, paradoxically, utterly and entirely ordinary.
But there is only one way to nurture that hope.
