Geography of nature vs. nurture

Ted Burnham, writing for NPR:

Now it appears that, even for a single disease or condition, the balance between nature and nurture isn’t fixed place to place. That’s what researchers at Kings College London, writing this week in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, are showing with maps that identify hotspots in the U.K. where either genetic or environmental factors dominate.

One of the main environmental factors? Income.

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