Memes move at the speed of communication and can spread anything from gossip to political revolution
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genetics, environment, nature–nurture debate, memes, environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA), proximal and distal causes
The nature–nurture debate is a philosophical argument over what matters most in development — our biologically created ‘nature’ or our socially created ‘nurture’. Historically, the debate took the point of birth as the change from nature to nurture. This was the standard contrast in psychology for most of the twentieth century, and was a remnant of the prevailing view in pre-twentieth century science of ‘God-given grace’ vs ‘the corruption of humanity’.
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