Ronald Aylmer Fisher


  • One of the three architects of the "Modern Synthesis" in evolutionary biology
  • Major theoretical population geneticist
  • Major statistician
The photograph (left) shows the window in the Hall of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, erected in Fisher's honour. Top: a pane commemorating John Venn (and his Venn diagrams). Bottom: a pane depicting Fisher's latin square experimental design.

Fisher (1930): on species and parapatric speciation

The RA Fisher Digital Archive
A Guide to RA Fisher


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