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A set of speaking notes (nine sheets, holograph) headed "Chance and Necessity" for a talk given in Cambridge, 25 October,1972.

With a title taken from Jacques Monod (1970), Crick's notes describe his talk as "a sermon with [Monod's] book for a text".

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