ABSTRACT
W e suggest that the problem of new structures in development has been extraor dinarily difficult because of a false parallel between genotype and environment, which, we argue, are not constructs at the same level of analysis. The dichotomy of nature and nurture has always been a bad one, not only for the oft-cited reasons that both are required for development, but because a false parallel arises betw een the two. W e propose that de velopment is indeed the result of nature and nurture but that genes drive experience. Genes are components in a system that orga nizes the organism to experience its world. The organism’s abilities to experience the world change with development and are in dividually variable. A good theory of the en vironment can only be one in which experi ence is guided by genotypes that both push and restrain experiences.
