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[Kuros]

Man has a genetic predisposition of flexibility to adapt, and is thus more prone to environmental influences, because of genetics.

Anyone who thinks science can tame this question hasn't yet learned the limits of reason.

[Kepler]

Twin studies indicate that nature is more important:

"In the unending debate over the relative importance of nature and nurture in making us who we are, twin studies have weighed in heavily on the side of nature. Identical twins separated at birth and raised apart have been found to be remarkably similar, despite disparate upbringings. Fraternal twins of the same sex have many differences despite being born together and raised together in the same family. Leading studies find that 'on multiple measures of personality and temperament, occupational and leisure time interests, and social attitudes' identical twins reared apart are about as similar as identical twins reared together. [160 p. 223; 1242.5 pp. 314-321; 1492] Moreover, identical twins reared apart are more similar than fraternal twins reared together. [1008.5]"
http://oscar.virginia.edu/asp/PublicAward.asp?AwardID=22347

[Koveras]

I suspect it goes like this: within human nature, men fall broadly into three types. Within these types, each man is born with a range of possibilities, affinities, and aversions of his own. Until he is rational and self-conscious, which can take from 8 years to never, his possibilities select from and merge with environmental influences to form his personality. Once he is rational and self-conscious he begins to create himself, to 'become what he is'.

[Kuros]

[Koveras]