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After you have completed the Reading, and without reviewing your classmate’s responses, post your initial response to the following Discussion. Your post should be at least 200–250 words in length and should extend the discussion of the group supported by your course materials and/or other appropriate resources.

After you have submitted your initial post, take time to review your classmates’ responses and to respond specifically and substantially to at least two of them. Refer to the Discussion Rubric in Course Resources for specific grading explanation.

By increasing your understanding of theories that attempt to describe how your brain works, it is helpful to consider what you were born with and how your world has shaped you. You are, after all, not just a product of our brains and our bodies. In this Discussion Board, you will delve deeper into how your thinking and behavior is impacted by nature and nurture influences.

I grew up in deaf school and ended up in public school and graduated in public school so I was exposed to both world.

Explain what genes are, and how behavioral geneticists explain our human differences.
Discuss the impact of heredity (nature) and environment (nurture) on a person.
Describe how evolutionary psychologists use natural selection to explain behavior tendencies. Do you agree with this? Why or why not?

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Genes

Genes refer to instruction found in the bodies of living things that command how body tissues of living things are made. These genes are usually inherited from one generation to the next. All genes are usually a portion of DNA code (Stenson, et, al., 2009). Genes are usually composed of nucleotides, on a specific part of a chromosome, which is responsible for giving the heritable characteristics,

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