Title:

Letter from John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center to Francis Crick

Creator:

Fogarty International Center
Edsall, John T.

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

30 April 1971

Description:

Edsall here continued his discussion with Crick 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 Edsall here responded to Crick's call for a "Twins Institute" that would encourage parents of identical twins to give up one twin for adoption as a way of expanding the pool of subjects for studies on identical twins raised separately. To scientists, such studies were ideally suited to distinguish the effects of heredity and environment on human development.

Original Repository:

The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers

Location:

Box: 22. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/14

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Genetics and Environment

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Relation:

Letter from Francis Crick to John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center, 1971
Letter from Francis Crick to John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center, 1971

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers. 11646. URL. http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/

Legacy ID:

SCBBNJ

NLM ID:

101584582X193

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X193

Story Section:

Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976