> Who you are is almost entirely contained within your genes, with a minority contribution from enviroment and parents and schooling. Nature won the debate It

> Who you are is almost entirely contained within your genes, with a minority contribution from enviroment and parents and schooling. Nature won the debate It would be more precise to say that maximum potential is largely genetic. Watson was wrong in that sense, but right in the opposite sense: an extremely bad environment - malnutrition, disease, pollution, very poor or no education, and so on - can definitely prevent someone from reaching their genetic potential. Unfortunately, an extremely good environment does not seem to reliably eliminate a genetic ceiling (for want of a better term) to a similar extent.