Letter from John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center to Francis Crick
- Title:
- Letter from John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center to Francis Crick
- Creator:
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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