Research contribute to the discussion of nature vs. nurture

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Question: After watching the video "London Taxi Drivers' Brains" and reading the article "Acquiring the knowledge of London's Layout drives structural brain changes" by Katherine Woollett and Eleanor A. Maguire on taxi driver hippocampus size, compare and contrast the evidence that exists for brain differences between taxi drivers who have passed the Knowledge and non-taxi drivers.

In the article, Woollet and Maguire compared the results of non-taxi drivers, those who failed the Knowledge and those who passed it. By including those who failed the Knowledge in their comparisons, what additional conclusions were the authors able to make?

How does this research contribute to the discussion of nature vs. nurture?

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