This document outlines a research topic on the nature versus nurture controversy and the critical analysis of the Mead-Freeman debate from 1983. It discusses how Freeman challenged Mead's 1928 ethnographic work on adolescent behavior in Samoa. Freeman's critique sparked debate in anthropology around the concepts of nature versus nurture. The outline then discusses how various academic writings emerged supporting one concept over the other and how most modern scholars support both cultural and biological determinism.