Orgel, Crick and Sapienza

Date:
1980
Reference:
PP/CRI/H/6/13/3
Part of:
Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives
  • Archives and manuscripts
  • Online

Collection contents

Available online

Access conditions

Works in this archive created by Francis Crick are available under a CC-BY licence. Please be aware that works in this archive created by other organisations and individuals are not covered under this licence, and you should obtain any necessary permissions before copying or adapting any such works.

In copyright

It is possible this item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You may be able to use this digital item under a copyright exception, otherwise you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). These may be identified elsewhere in the catalogue record. Read more about copyright.

Read further guidance on copyright exceptions in the UK.

Credit

Orgel, Crick and Sapienza. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

Holograph and typescript drafts of the joint response by Orgel, Crick and Sapienza, beginning "Difficulties have been caused by the words...," Nature, 288 (18/25 December, 1980), 645-6.

The file also contains Dover and Doolittle (typescripts with corrections), "Modes of genome evolution," from the same issue of Nature (646-7), and James A Shapiro and Willem G Roskam (photocopy typescript), "On selfish DNA," a text clearly intended for publication in Nature although it does not appear to have been selected.

Publication/Creation

1980

Physical description

1 file

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores

Permanent link