Ronald A. Fisher (1890–1962) was a statistics pioneer who developed population genetics and created innovative mathematical experiments.
Keywords: statistics; population genetics; Darwinism; eugenics
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer
Michael Ruse, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Published online: September 2006
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005690
| Further Reading | |
| book Bennett JH (ed.) (1983) Natural Selection, Heredity, and Eugenics: Including Selected Correspondence of R.A. Fisher with Leonard Darwin and Others. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Box JF (1978) R. A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist. New York: Wiley. | |
| book Fisher RA (1925) Statistical Methods for Research Workers. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. | |
| book Fisher RA (1930) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book MacKenzie DA (1981) Statistics in Britain, 1865–1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. | |
| book Provine WB (1971) The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
| book Ruse M (1996) Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. | |
| book Ruse M (1999) Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. | |
