Essay draft

Nurture strongly influences early human development

Liuqing JIANG (KEVIN) Draft

The nature and nurture it’s always be a controversial issue. Some would clam that nature play a most important role in the human life. But the others would argue that nurture has powerfully influences on human development. In my opinion， the impact of environment on children was more important than human nature that the parents give them.

The genetic program determine our gender, the colour of our hair, eyes, skin and body size, among other things.，which can not change under our control include the intelligence. “Children’s Intelligence scores in a long-term survey were established at 4 and 13 years and related to social and family risk factors. It was assessed by a multiple environmental risk score that each child by counting the number of high-risk conditions from 10 risk factors: mother's behavior, mother's developmental beliefs, mother's anxiety, mother's mental health, mother's educational attainment, family social support, family size, major stressful life events, and occupation of head of household and disadvantaged minority status.” Some people would ask:  where did you get your talent for singing? It is generally accepted that some people are born with talents, for example, British singer Lily Allen，many people says that she is the talent singer（Gray Zone，2009），and others are not.

Some may consider that the environment factor was more significant. The quality of Chinese family education directly affects the children’s development. In ancient China, "Meng Mu San Qian" ancient story proves the importance of family education. This story is about Mencius’ mother decided to move house three times in order to find a suitable place to live, just for change the environment of Mencius’ study. Some scientists have done such a special test: he put a pair of twins, separated since childhood and one of them stay in the good condition family in the city, the other was sent to the remote area to live with relatives. The genetic quality of these two children was same, due to different environments they got a different personality, Stay in the city's one like reading, the personality was more quiet; and the child who lived in the forests like climbing trees, but do not like reading. Through this experiment, the impact of environment on children was considerable.

Why do people in their countries speak their own language？Such as People in England speak English and people in China speak Mandarin? The ‘reasonable compromise’ would be that the people in England has genes that make it easier to learn English and the people in China have genes that make it easier to learn Mandarin, but that both groups must be exposed to a language to acquire it at all. This compromise is, of course, not reasonable but false, as we see when children exposed to a given language acquire it equally quickly regardless of their racial ancestry. Though people may be genetically predisposed to learn language, they are not genetically predisposed, even in part, to learn a particular language; the explanation for why people in different countries speak differently is 100 percent environmental (Steven P,2004).

IQ the intelligence quotient we have is different from everyone, some people with high IQs, and some people with low IQs. However, history has proved that success is not much with the connected between IQs. I think the nurture have strongly influences on early human development.

References：

Gray Zone. (2009). Accessed 16^th Oct 2010.Available online at:

http://grayzone.com/GrayZoneQuarterlyDigest1009.pdf

Steven P. (2004). Why nature & nurture won’t go away.Accessed 14^th Oct 2010.Available online at:

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/papers/nature_nurture.pdf