The well-known “nature versus nurture” debate goes back hundreds of years, and it is still of interest today.
It asks whether certain behaviors are rooted in our natural inclinations, or whether our social environment shapes them.
Recently, the release of the documentary Three Identical Strangers reignited some discussions into the importance of environmental factors and education versus that of heritable traits.
The documentary presents the case of a contentious “twin study” (or in this case “triplet study”) conducted in the 1960s. It involved separating identical triplets during infancy and adopting them out to different families as “only children” to assess how the siblings would evolve throughout their lives.
