Psychologist Donald Hebb is said to have once answered a journalist's question of "which, nature or nurture, contributes more to personality?" by asking in response, "Which contributes more to the area of a rectangle, its length or its width?"[9][10][11][12] That is, the idea that either nature or nurture explains a creature's behaviour is a sort of single cause fallacy.
From Wikipedia article on Nature Vs Nurture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature-nurture_debate
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