Many years ago I heard about a student who asked his professor if intelligence was due to nature or nurture. The "answer" fascinates me, he answered with a question.<br>Does the area of a field depend on the length  or the width?,(reply>), What is so fascinating about a piece of extremely basic logic? Of course its not purely nature or nurture. Of course both matter.,(reply>), @alex kalish nope. And you clearly didn't listen to the podcast you are commenting on,(reply>), Nature × nurture,(reply>), They have done alot of study on this. It appears that it is 50/50 about half genetic and half environment.