ABSTRACT
Two concepts have permeated metatheoretical and theoretical discussions of the nature of development: nature and nurture. Today, use of these terms is somewhat unfashionable, suggesting to some an anachronistic conceptual distinction and/or a theoretically atavistic resurrection of a false, empirically useless division. Often, then, discussion of the nature-nurture issue is eschewed in favor of presentations of ideas about organism-environment interactions or, with even more popular currency, models of individual-context transactions.
