Nature or nurture: can genes shape our behaviour?
- Posted on June 25, 2026
- By The Guardian
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Nature or nurture: can genes shape our behaviour?
Ian Sample talks to Kathryn Paige Harden, a behavioural geneticist and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. In her book Original Sin she explores how nature and nurture combine to influence our likelihood of committing crimes, and asks whether the ‘cause’ of our actions matters for how we think about culpability
