, Research Paper
The Relationship between Heredity and Environment
February 22, 2000
William Lee
People of the world believe that the way you turn out as a person depends on either your inherited genes or the environment around you. In the article, The Wild boy of Aveyron it talks about how a boy was found in the wild, and how he was in isolation from the human race for so long, that he didn t really have any human characteristics. Doctors examined the boy, and one of the doctors tries to teach the boy, how to be accepted back into society, by teaching him the basics, like talking. Thus through all the experiments it shows the difference of nature, and nurture.
While reading the article I found that, the theory of how the environment affects a person personality more then heredity, is true. This is shown through out the article, it shows examples of how the boy has animal characteristics instead of human ones, even though he was born from a woman, and looks like a human he acts completely different from a normal human being. The living conditio
Thus it is clear that the theory of nurturing a child is one of the most important facts of shaping a child. It is shown in this article because of the outcome of the child how he first is like a savage animal, and then later tamed, but even a tamed animals go on rampages, just like the Wild Boy .