 Taken together this work has generated a new perspective on the old question of ‘inherited vs experienced, ancestral vs acquired, or nature vs nurture’ and promises to shed new light on health management strategy.With Dr. Andrea Gore (the University of Texas at Austin, College of Pharmacy), Dr. Crews has explored the reality of living in a contaminated world.Here they show the links between nature and nurture need to be redefined to accommodate anthropogenic chemical contamination.