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    Traits are jointly determined by multiple causes — Carmelics
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    Supports→Traits cannot be attributed primarily to genes or primarily to environment in any fixed proportion

    Traits are jointly determined by multiple causes

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    But notice the waffle words used by Watson and on the cover of Life: “in large measure” and “mostly in your genes.” Everyone is an interactionist these days, in some sense of “interaction.” Genes and environment, or nature and nurture, are recognized both to be necessary for development: by themselves, genes can’t determine or do anything. Yet, theorists still seem to give the nod to one or the other, suggesting that it is mostly genes or mostly the environment, mostly nature or mostly nurture,

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