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Volume 355:854-855 August 24, 2006 Number 8
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Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code

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(Eminent Lives.) By Matt Ridley. 213 pp. New York, HarperCollins, 2006. $19.95. ISBN 0-06-082333-X.

As a child, Francis Crick was afraid that there would be nothing left for him to discover when he was an adult. In his book, Francis Crick, Matt Ridley shows us how wrong Crick was. We read of Crick's years at the Admiralty Research Laboratory during World War II; of his "high-pitch laugh, more like a bray"; of his experiences with LSD in the 1970s; and of his belief that differences in IQ between blacks and whites have a genetic, not social, basis. We read less about Crick's late interest in the possibility of an extraterrestrial origin of life but, . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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