• Question: What makes every individual different from the other?

    Asked by to Nat, Nate, Roberto, Sam, Sarah on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Nate Bastian answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Good question, and not easy to answer. Fundamentally, every person is genetically different (except for identical twins) from everyone else, so we are all different to start with. Additionally, we all have different experiences, as we grow up in different environments, with different families and different friends. This gives each one of us a different perspective on the world, which is unique to us.

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      Sarah Casewell answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      We’re all different because of our genes – they make us biologically unique. But we’re also a sum of our experiences – even genetically identical people (identical twins) will have different experiences of life.

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      Natasha Stephen answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      Genetics and science aside, we are all different from one another because we are different people and have experienced different things. The same situations can be interpreted differently and will lead to different outcomes each time. It is the experiences in life that we share alongside our decisions that made us unique.

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      Roberto Trotta answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      We are all different in terms of our genes — that is the material inside our cells that decides the colour of our eye, our hair, how tall we’ll grow etc. We receive half our genes from our mother, and the other half from our father.

      But then there is also the question of how we are brought up — this also influences our development, and the person we become as an adult is very much a blend of what was passed down to us from our parents (the genes) and the education we have been given, as well as the environment we grew up in.

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