Gene Robinson, Director of the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois, argues which of the following about the nature versus nurture controversy? 1. The truth of the matter is that DNA is fundamentally inherited and environmentally responsive. 2. Individuals may differ in gene activity because of DNA variations they inherited. These differences evolve over very long periods of time, from generation to generation. This is nurture. 3. Individuals may also differ in gene activity because of variations in their environment, like the rats and honeybees. These differences occur over shorter times, within individual lifetimes. This is nurture. 4. As much as people like to divide themselves into nature or nurture camps, what genes actually do in the brain reflects the interaction

between hereditary and environmental information.

A. 1, 2, & 3
B. 1, 2, & 4
C. 1, 3, & 4
D. 2, 3, & 4
E. All of the Above


C. 1, 3, & 4

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