What is important about nurture?

The view that humans acquire all or almost all their behavioral traits from "nurture" was termed by philosopher john Locke tabula rasa ("blank slate") and proposes that humans develop from only environmental influences. This question was once considered to be an appropriate division of developmental influences, but since both types of factors are known to play such interacting roles in development, most modern psychologists and anthropologists consider the question naive-representing an outdated state of knowledge