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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half-title page; Frontispiece; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Selected Featured Papers of A.W.F. Edwards; List of Contributors; Dedication; Introduction; Part 1 Selected Papers of A.W.F. Edwards; The reconstruction of evolution (with L.L. Cavalli-Sforza) (1963) [25]; Reconstruction of evolutionary trees (with L.L. Cavalli-Sforza) (1964) [27]; Analysis of human evolution under random genetic drift (with L.L. Cavalli-Sforza and I. Barrai) (1964) [28]; Analysis of human evolution (with L.L. Cavalli-Sforza) (1965) [29] |
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A method for cluster analysis (with L.L. Cavalli-Sforza) (1965) [30]Studying human evolution by computer (1966) [32]; Estimation procedures for evolutionary branching processes (with L.L. Cavalli-Sforza) (1966) [35]; Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection (1967) [36]; Phylogenetic analysis: models and estimation procedures (with L.L. Cavalli-Sforza) (1967) [37]; Statistical methods in scientific inference (1969) [42]; Estimation of the branch points of a branching diffusion process (1970) [46]; Review of Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 2, by S. Wright (1971) [49] |
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Affinity as revealed by differences in gene frequencies (with L.L. Cavalli-Sforza) (1972) [53]Likelihood (1972) [56]; The history of likelihood (1974) [60]; Are Mendel's results really too close? (1986) [96]; Probability and likelihood in genetic counselling (1989) [117]; The Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection (1994) [140]; Assessing molecular phylogenies (1995) [141]; The origin and early development of the method of minimum evolution for the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees (1996) [146] |
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Darwin and Mendel united: the contributions of Fisher, Haldane and Wright up to 1932 (2001) [173]Human genetic diversity: Lewontin's fallacy (2003) [192]; Parsimony and computers (2004) [197]; Statistical methods for evolutionary trees (2009) [225]; Mathematizing Darwin (2011) [227]; Robert Heath Lock and his textbook of genetics, 1906 (2013) [235]; R.A. Fisher's gene-centred view of evolution and the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection (2014) [238]; Analysing nature's experiment: Fisher's inductive theorem of natural selection (2016) [248]; Part 2 Commentaries |
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Anthony Edwards's Seminal Contributions to Phylogenetics, Likelihood, and Understanding R.A. Fisher and the History of GeneticsAnthony Edwards, Luca Cavalli-Sforza, and Phylogenies; The Historic Split and Merger of Gene Trees and Species Trees; Likelihood and the Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology; Likelihood Inference in Models for the Genetic Diversity of Populations; A.W.F. Edwards and the Origin of Bayesian Phylogenetics; A Conversation about Fisher (1930, 1958); Edwards on Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection |
| Summary |
Seminal papers by A.W.F. Edwards, published together for the first time with commentaries from leading experts to contextualise his contribution |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 28, 2018) |
| Subject |
Edwards, A. W. F. (Anthony William Fairbank), 1935-
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Population genetics -- Mathematical models.
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Genetics -- Mathematical models.
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Cladistic analysis.
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Genetics, Population -- statistics & numerical data
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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Cladistic analysis
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Genetics -- Mathematical models
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Population genetics -- Mathematical models
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Winther, Rasmus, editor
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| ISBN |
9781108605120 |
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1108605125 |
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9781316276259 |
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1316276252 |
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