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. …showed first 75 words of 397 total…

…showed last 75 words of 397 total…the isolation. Through out the article there are many example of how nurture overcomes nature. 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”.