Nature vs nurture

The long-running debate over how much of human character, behaviour, and ability is shaped by inherited biology versus environment and upbringing. William Godwin and other Enlightenment optimists argued that nurture was effectively everything — a position carried forward today by David Deutsch — while behavioural genetics has consistently found a substantial inherited component. Frankenstein dramatises the question through its monster, whose violence may be innate, a response to neglect and rejection, or both.

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