Letter from Eric I. Hamilton to Francis Crick

Letter from Eric I. Hamilton to Francis Crick

Contributor(s):
The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
Hamilton, Eric I.
Publication:
Produced: 20 August 1973
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Organelle Biogenesis
Genetic Code
Biological Evolution
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
In his letter Hamilton speculated how recent findings in chemistry and biochemistry related to Crick's concept of directed panspermia, the idea that life on earth was deliberately seeded by an extraterrestrial civilization. Crick speculated that life on earth evolved from a single source--perhaps supplied externally--because the genetic code is universal to all organisms. Hamilton asked what the implications of a universal code were for the future course of evolution, if the genome was subjected to man-made mutation-inducing agents.
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Extent:
2 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584582X177 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
SCBBMP
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X177
Archival Collection:
The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)