Letter from Francis Crick to Ernst Mayr
- 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