This always confused me as well. It’s all nature in the end - your genes will react to a certain environment in a certain way. Of course we have some control over environment so it’s worth making the nature vs nurture distinction, but how you react to an environment is predetermined. Not that we can easily predict any of this given the staggering complexity.

Additionally, what’s the deal with the almost doublespeak in the article? The author plainly states that genes aren’t code, but then goes on to say they’re just more complex code.