… the so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regar… - Ronald Fisher

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… the so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data.

Ronald Fisher

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Sir Ronald Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an evolutionary biologist, geneticist and statistician. He was the father-in-law of George Box.

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Native Name: Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Alternative Names: Ronald A. Fisher • Ronald Aylmer Fisher • R. A. Fisher • Sir Ronald Fisher

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We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form : The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time.

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