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This book considers nurture and nature in terms of their interplay in the development of characteristics that differ among people. In relation to genetics, it considers DNA differences among individuals that are heritable in the Mendeleian sense of transmission from generation to generation rather than the vast majority of DNA that is the same for all members of our species. Similarly, the focus is placed on environmental differences in the language-learning environment that parents provide for their children, rather than the fact that nearly all children are exposed to language early in life. The core of the book is an important empirical phenomenon that has been discovered in the past decade: Genetic factors contribute to measures of the environment that are widely used in the behavioral sciences.