Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity Fact or Falsehood?

1. Nature, Nurture, and Human DiversityFact or Falsehood?

2. Fact or Falsehood ? 1. People everywhere reciprocate favors.

3. Fact or Falsehood ? 2. Even complex human traits are determined by a single gene.

4. Fact or Falsehood ? 3. Adoptees’ traits bear more similarities to their adoptive parents than to their biological parents.

5. Fact or Falsehood ? 4. Two children in the same family are on average as different from one another as are pairs of children selected randomly from the population.

6. Fact or Falsehood ? 5. If after a worldwide catastrophe only Icelanders or Kenyans survived, the human species would suffer a huge reduction in its genetic diversity.

7. Fact of Falsehood ? 6. In many places around the world, females are more likely than males to initiate sexual activity.

8. Fact or Falsehood ? 7. A child who hears English spoken with one accent at home and another in the neighborhood and at school invariably adopts the accent of his or her peers, not the parents.

9. Fact or Falsehood ? 8. Compared with Westerners, people in Japanese cultures exhibit greater concern for social harmony and loyalty.

10. Fact or Falsehood ? 9. Seven weeks after conception, males and females remain anatomically indistinguishable.

11. Fact or Falsehood ? 10. Even when families discourage traditional gender-typing, children still organize themselves into “boy worlds” and “girl worlds,” each guided by rules for what boys and girls do.