But that framing—the idea of nature versus nurture—is all wrong. Just because some trait—like reading—is highly heritable doesn’t mean the environment doesn’t matter, it just means the ...

Reading difficulties are neurodevelopmental in nature. Neurodevelopmental problems don't go away, but they do not mean that a student (or an adult) cannot learn or progress in school and life.

Reading is the process of deriving meaning from complex symbols. It involves decoding letters and recognizing words, as well as fluency in understanding sentences and larger units of language. To ...

Therefore, one might assume that, by now, most scientists would be exceedingly comfortable with "tree thinking"--reading and interpreting phylogenies. However, it turns out that the tree model of ...