In nature and nurture part, I want to know more about adoption studies. Here, what I want to know about is that are adoptee changed their traits by environments where they are in, or biological parents because of the genes inherit from.
So, I searched about it and found a research article on the internet, and it gave us some experimental examples to determine what factors have the most effect to them. The first example was that if the biological parent has shyness genetic, then the adoptee would be also shy. This strengthens the possibility of a genetic link overshadowing family environment (Daniels & Plomin, 1985). Another example is Steve Jobs who was CEO of Apple Inc. The reason that I mention him is he was adopted by the family of Paul Jobs and Clara Jobs. At this point, if Steve Jobs was be brought by his biological parent, would he have a successful life? So, I think this example gave us that environmental factor had more influence than biological factor. So, which factors do you think have more impact to adoptee between biological and environmental, or, even both factors?
http://blogs.babble.com/famecrawler/2011/02/17/national-enquirer-steve-jobs-six-weeks-to-live/
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Kate raises an interesting point here. The parents were likely to be high quality and nurtured both children to be successful. Yet they both inherited traits that contributed to their success and may have been able to achieve in similar ways in many different home environments.
Jobs' family background is very interesting, isn't it?
I found it fascinating that his biological parents had a second child, a daughter, Mona Simpson who is also very accomplished. The wikipedia article I link to here suggests that Jobs himself seems to have come to recognize how his genes affected him while still considering his adoptive parents a primary factor in his development.