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So, you are addressing the old, often challenging issue of separating nature and nurture.

Well, suppose a mother has genetic anxiety disease and consider her daughter: Then the daughter likely has anxiety disease from both nature and nurture, that is, from both her mother's genes and her mother's behavior.

E.g., both the mother and daughter can have social phobia and, then, commonly, when planning the social aspects of a trip to the grocery store have her brain burn glucose at a faster rate than anyone has yet thinking about, say, general relativity or P = NP. E.g., when making salad dressing, don't use wine vinegar because wine on the label that might generate rumors in the community, school board, and church that the woman is an alcoholic -- it wish that was a joke or exaggeration, but it wasn't .



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