Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Ernst Mayr

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005

Date:

21 April 1971

Description:

Crick's letter to the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr was written in reference to the contemporary debate in the United States about the role of genetics, race, and environment in human behavior. The debate was triggered by the Nobel Prize winning physicist William Shockley, who argued that the lag in educational achievements of black Americans could be accounted for by inherited racial traits, namely a lower IQ.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 12. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/2/8

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. and http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Genetics, Intelligence, and Continental Population Groups

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Ernst Mayr to Francis Crick, 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:

SCBBMV

NLM ID:

101584582X182

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X182

Story Section:

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