A.W.F. Edwards

Genomics

See Also

• [R.C. Lewontin]?
• [R.A. Fisher]?

Description

Anthony William Fairbank Edwards (born 1935) is a British statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist. He is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and retired Professor of Biometry at the University of Cambridge. A pupil of [R.A. Fisher]?, he has written several books and numerous scientific papers. He is best known for his pioneering work, with L.L. Cavalli-Sforza, on quantitative methods of [Phylogenetics? phylogenetic analysis], and for strongly advocating Fisher's concept of likelihood as the proper basis for statistical and scientific inference. He has also written extensively on the history of genetics and statistics, including an analysis of whether Mendel's results were "too good", and also on purely mathematical subjects, such as Venn diagrams.

Discussion

Links

• Response to Criticism of RA Fisher's Analysis of Mendel's Results

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