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Letter from Francis Crick to John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center
Letter from Francis Crick to John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center
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The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers Fogarty International Center Crick, Francis, 1916-2004 Edsall, John T.
In his letter Crick endorsed Edsall's call for a program of positive eugenics, meaning a social and population policy that would encourage reproduction by people with desirable genetic traits. Both also worried about global population growth, a concern shared with many other scientists at the time. See, for example, Joshua Lederberg's contemporary editorials on this issue in the Washington Post.. NOTE: Crick's signature is cut off on the bottom of the page in the original document.
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