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.

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 ...

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 ...