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Posted By: Stilly River Sage
08-Jan-23 - 10:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Nature or Nurture or...........
Subject: RE: BS: Nature or Nurture or...........
The New Scientist link: Nature, nurture, luck: Why you are more than just genes and upbringing

Your genes and environment play a big part in forming you, but there is an unexplored third element at play too: luck. The chance events that shape your brain in the womb may influence who you become as much as your genetics, and perhaps even more than the effect of parenting

The teaser article published Sept. 21, 2022 The person quoted before the summary cuts out is Benjamin L. de Bivort from Harvard. When you visit his recent publications it looks like

"Stochasticity, individuality and behavior." Honegger K, de Bivort B. Current Biology. 28, R8-R12, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.11.058, 2018.

Stochasticity being the high-falutin term for "luck."

Pubmed link to the abstract. This is to the full text.