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Title:
Letter from Francis Crick to John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center pdf (231,919 Bytes) ocr (5,159 Bytes)
Description:
In his letter Crick called for "constructive approaches" to research on the interaction of heredity and environment in the formation of intelligence, an issue brought to the forefront of public debate in the late 1960s by the writings of William Shockley and Arthur Jensen. In particular, Crick called for more research on identical twins separated at birth.
Number of Image Pages:
2 (231,919 Bytes)
Date:
1971-03-29 (March 29, 1971)
Creator:
Crick, Francis
Recipient:
Edsall, John T.
Fogarty International Center
Source:
Original Repository: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
URL: http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/
Rights:
Reproduced with permission of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
URL: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/
Subject:
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
Genetics
Environment
Exhibit Category:
Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976
Relation:
Metadata Record Letter from John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center to Francis Crick (April 30, 1971)
Metadata Record Letter from John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center to Francis Crick (March 5, 1971)
Box Number: 22
Folder Number: PP/CRI/D/2/14
Unique Identifier:
SCBBNK
Document Type:
Letters (correspondence)
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Correspondence
SubSeries: Individual Correspondents
Folder: "Jensen's Work"
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2004-10-20
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