When analyzing the topics of nature vs. nurture, I believe in most cases that nature outweighs nurturing. For instance, there are several cases in which identical twins were separated at birth, and did not know about the other. The twins often times grow up to be extremely similar, like in the case we studied earlier this year about the twins, Jim L. and Jim S. During infancy, the boys were separated and adopted to different families in Ohio, unaware that they had a twin. The two had extremely odd similarities between them that seem to be more than coincidence. For instance, when the boys were younger, they both had had dogs that they named Toy, they both bit their fingernails, suffered from headache syndromes at the age of 18, each married twice, first to a Linda and then Betty, they named their sons James Alan and James Allen, they had a circular bench around a tree in their backyard, went to the same vacation spot each summer, and had similar hand gestures, voices and mannerisms.
In a more serious case to analyze nature vs. nurture, the case of David Reimer is an excellent example of nature overpowering. As explained in a previous post of mine on Ethical Issues in Psychology, David Reimer was a case in which a young boy was damaged beyond repair in surgery, and then was brought up by his parents as though he were a girl. This scarred him for his life, and majorly impacted him. He always acted as a tom boy even when he was being raised as a girl, and eventually decided to be a boy rather than the girl which he was raised as. Nature outweighed nurture.
On a lighter note, in more everyday cases in an average person's life, there are also things that lead to the conclusion that nature would overpower nurture. You know you've heard from some person that they laugh like there dad, act just like their mom, etc etc. A persons true identity is from how they were born.
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