Articles written by Michael Wells

Michael Wells|Updated Aug 7, 2018

On the occasions when I have contemplated what motivates human behavior, I have done so mostly within the framework of "nature/nurture." Are we motivated mostly by our genetics or by how our life experiences have formed us? Maybe they interact. Science tells us that certain environmental factors may cause mutations in our genes that could be carried through to our children. Maybe it's not either/or. As a young man, I tried to test the nature/nurture paradigm when I visited my absent father to see what in him was common to me... Full story