Heredity ? Environment ?
Which do you think has a greater effect on a person - heredity or environment? Explain.
If birth had the power to decide the entire course of a person’s life then leading such a life would be futile. Genetic factors do have their say in how people progress in terms of the mannerisms, habits and most importantly intelligence levels passed on to the progeny. But it is a deep-rooted practice of mankind to battle these effects and counter them with proper utilization of the resources in their environment. More often than not humans have succeeded in proving their ability to overcome the hereditary hindrances.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima, witnesses to a major nuclear catastrophe, are still home to scads of people who’ve taken the pain to bear the diseases passed onto them as a result of exposure to high levels of radioactivity. Today they are a part of a nation which has grown by leaps and bounds in the perspective of development both economically and technologically affirming the fact that accepting defeat in the hands of ill effects of heredity would only be foolish.
There are cases of professionals stepping into their parents’ shoes and handling their professions equally well but it would be more sensible to attribute this effect to the way they are brought up instead of sheer genetic consequences. Intuitively it might seem that skills are a kind of intangible baton handed over to the child generation but behind their success lie years of productive exposure to the environment and inclination towards the same that comes as an obvious effect because of the eventuating comfort.
If heredity was the only influential factor then it would have been dictated that Sachin Tendulkar’s son would amass few more thousands of runs, Jaden Gil, son of Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi, would be the ineluctable and indomitable tennis champion and Albert Einstein’s offspring would come up with an innovative theory each. Fortunately fate does not ordain such for it has only benefited those who might have otherwise spent their lives cursing their family tree.
If birth had the power to decide the entire course of a person’s life then leading such a life would be futile. Genetic factors do have their say in how people progress in terms of the mannerisms, habits and most importantly intelligence levels passed on to the progeny. But it is a deep-rooted practice of mankind to battle these effects and counter them with proper utilization of the resources in their environment. More often than not humans have succeeded in proving their ability to overcome the hereditary hindrances.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima, witnesses to a major nuclear catastrophe, are still home to scads of people who’ve taken the pain to bear the diseases passed onto them as a result of exposure to high levels of radioactivity. Today they are a part of a nation which has grown by leaps and bounds in the perspective of development both economically and technologically affirming the fact that accepting defeat in the hands of ill effects of heredity would only be foolish.
There are cases of professionals stepping into their parents’ shoes and handling their professions equally well but it would be more sensible to attribute this effect to the way they are brought up instead of sheer genetic consequences. Intuitively it might seem that skills are a kind of intangible baton handed over to the child generation but behind their success lie years of productive exposure to the environment and inclination towards the same that comes as an obvious effect because of the eventuating comfort.
If heredity was the only influential factor then it would have been dictated that Sachin Tendulkar’s son would amass few more thousands of runs, Jaden Gil, son of Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi, would be the ineluctable and indomitable tennis champion and Albert Einstein’s offspring would come up with an innovative theory each. Fortunately fate does not ordain such for it has only benefited those who might have otherwise spent their lives cursing their family tree.
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