renaissance william shakespeare perhaps first coined phrase nature versus nurture ''the tempest'' wrote act iv scene caliban devil born devil whose nature nurture never stick ref name mcguegottesman modern day behavioural genetics began sir francis galton nineteenth century intellectual cousin charles darwin ref name mcguegottesman ref galton polymath studied many subjects including heritability human abilities mental characteristics one galton 's investigations involved large pedigree study social intellectual achievement english upper class years
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