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In reply to the discussion: Evolutionary Psychology and anti-intellectualism. [View all]Mosby
(16,158 posts)The nature vs nurture dichotomy is more complicated then it used to be, for example schizophrenia is known to have genetic and environmental aspects, it develops from interactions between a persons genetics and the environment. So there are significant non genetic causes of schizophrenia, just like a lot of other hard to define illnesses and disorders.
Autism probably has a major environmental component, its only partly due to genetics. The results of the human genome project shows that genetics are linked to the environment, there is simply no way to separate the two.
There is a lot of interesting research coming out about gut microbes, seems that they communicate directly with our brains and might have a large role in our overall mood. Again this is an environmental effect, nothing to do with genetics since we are born with a sterile gut.