Genes, Nature, Nurture and The Freedom of Self-Knowledge (HD)

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, discusses the latest science and evidence in the nature versus nurture debate, and makes the case for the first commandment of Socrates: Know Thyself! Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

twins studies: excludes abuse, self-reporting, pre-selected families

where a large %- anywhere from 20-70% of identical twins- do NOT share such alarming similarities

- the temperature surrounding turtle and crocodile eggs determined their gender

- young, yellow-skinned grasshoppers became permanently black skinned for camouflage if exposed to a blackened (burnt) environment at a certain age

- locusts living in a crowded environment developed vastly more musculature (suitable for migration) than locusts living in less crowded conditions

Eleanor Maguire discovered in 1999 when she and her colleagues conducted MRI scans on London cabbies and compared them with the brain scans of others.

In contrast with non-cabbies, experienced taxi drivers had a greatly enlarged posterior hippocampus—that part of the brain that specializes in recalling spatial representations.

On its own, that finding proved nothing