Nature v. Nurture

The world we live in has thrived due to man’s ability to adapt. Cultures of the past have been able to adapt to their environment due to the needs to survive. These needs are met through human nature’s fundamental need to survive. Over time as the more successful traits have been passed, nurture has expanded on these traits as experience has taught humanity what types of traits are important and those that are not. Personality has played a pivotal role in human success because of the traits that have created success in the past are able to be expanded in the future. However where concepts become tricky is in nature vs. nurture. Personality is heavily influenced by both nature and nurture, however, each relies on the other to fully expand the human persona into the success it is.
The essence of human nature is to further oneself. From an evolutionary perspective, human nature furthered the nurture side. According to John Cacioppo and Laura Freberg’s textbook Discovering Psychology: The Science of the Mind: 1st Edition, “Our social minds were shaped by the cultures of hunter-gatherer groups until the development of agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago”. This idea supports the concept of transitioning from where something is nature to where it becomes nurture. The hunter-gatherer’s relied heavily on cooperation to survive as they were a very limited society. Cooperation is an idea passed through generations as it allows humans to survive and expand their knowledge bases when working together, which is still evidenced today. “Much social behavior probably originated in these types of situations, where the benefits of cooperation for an individual's survival and reproduction out-weighed any disadvantages of cooperating” (Caccio...

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...ralistic trait of ambition. Therefore, the biggest traits nurture shapes are humor, intelligence, caring, work ethic, and selfishness.
The very fundamental components to mankind dating back to Darwin are survival of the fittest and adaptation. As history has progressed, different personality traits have become vital to human success, which are showcased in the enormous amounts diverse traits displayed around the world. The nature v. nurture debate is never ending as it features many complex questions of what humans actually can change about themselves, in which case it becomes nurtured as a learned ability. Our human nature leaves us as naturally curious people, which leaves us always curious for the future and wanting more. However this constant want to learn and succeed has continued to further human success as we raise generations to be better than the one prior.