"Nature Via Nurture" is the book I am recommeding by Matt Ridley, who is the author of the national bestseller GENOME.

Here is some glims;"I am suggesting that the appetite for nurturing a talent might itself be an instinct. Having certain gens gives you certain appetites; finding yourself better at something than your peer sharpens your appetite for that thing; Practice makes perfect, and soon you have carved yourself a niche within the tribe as a specialist. Nurture reinforces nature." -- Matt Ridley, author of the national bestseller GENOME.

"Consider the question of beauty. You do not need a scientific study to tell you that some people are born more beautiful than others. Beauty runs in families; it depends on face shape, figure, nose size, and so on: all features that are mostly genetic. Beauty is nature. But it is also nurture. Diet,exercise, hygiene, and accedents can all affect physical attrctiveness, as can a hair cut, make up, or cosmetic surgery. With planty of money, luxary, and help, even quite ugly people can make themselves attractive, as Hollywood proves regularly, and even beautiful people can ruin their looks through poverty, carelessness, and stress. Some aspect of beauty, notable thinness and fatness, show considerable cultural plasticity. In poor countries -- and in the West during the past, when it was poorer than it is now -- to be plump was to be beautiful and to be skinny was to be ugly; Today, in the West. those statements have been at least partly reversed. Other aspects of beauty are less Varible. If people from different cultuer are asked to judge the beauty of women from photographs of the women's faces, a suprising degree of consensus emerges: Americans pick the same Chinese faces an Chinese people do; and Chinese pick the same American faces as Americans do. ---Matt Ridley

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xoxoxo. Lilly (954) 557-3303