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No two people are the same, not even selfsame(a) twins. There are overachievers, and alternatively underachievers, alcoholics and abstainers, the timid and the divulgegoing, and every possible commixture in between. Living With Our Genes argues that genes are the most outstanding factor in the process of developing the complex variability of human constitution. Hamer and Copeland lay out the idea of the nature-nurture controversy by identifying the differences between temperament and character. Temperament is the arrangement of primal behavioral tendencies we acquire, which are adapted to varied degrees by our character, beliefs, and the determine our surroundings bestows on us. Essentially it is a game of genes versus environment, with a uninterrupted back and forth as the authors explain the behavioral characteristics that effect our lives. The nature/nurture argument originates from the fact that people are more backward to accept a genetic influence on behavior than they are on more simple traits such as eye modify or an inherited illness. Hamer and Copeland put it as follows, We accept that ...