R. A. Fisher
Ronald Aylmer Fisher was one of the contributors to the modern neo-Darwinian synthesis, the standard theory of evolution as a combination of genetic mutation and natural selection. He also was the founder of mathematical statistics, which gave him his great insight into population genetics, the understanding of adaptation and speciation that is the result of gene flow and genetic drift.
He was a member of the Eugenics Society, based on the social engineering ideas of
Charles Darwin'a half-cousin
Francis Galton.
He found work at the
Galton Laboratory, then directed by the great applied mathematician and statistician
Karl Pearson.
Fisher developed the analysis of variance (he coined the term), which replaced correlation as the principal statistical method.
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