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Haldane and Sewall
B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverikov, George Gaylord Simpson, and G. Ledyard Stebbins.
Haldane, Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright.
Following the rediscovery of Mendel's principles of genetics, several theorists such as RA Fisher, JBS Haldane, Sewall Wright, Ernst Mayr and Theodosius Dobzhansky contributed to the synthesis of Mendel and Darwin's concept of natural selection.
B. S. Haldane, and Sewall Wright, paved the way to the formulation of the selfish-gene theory.

Haldane and Wright
The work of Fisher, Haldane and Wright founded the discipline of population genetics.
It presented the conclusions reached by Fisher, Haldane, and especially Wright in their highly mathematical papers in a form that was easily accessible to others.
The work of Fisher, Haldane and Wright founded the discipline of population genetics.
James F. Crow, himself a renowned population geneticist, considered Kimura to be one of the two greatest evolutionary geneticists, along with Gustave Malécot, after the great trio of the modern synthesis ( Haldane, Wright, Fisher ).

Haldane and provided
Haldane was also instrumental in the creation the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1909, which provided the fledgling aircraft industry in the United Kingdom with a sound body of science on which to base the development of aircraft for the next seventy years ( it was disbanded in 1979 ).
In 820, the late King Bearand Haldane is formally canonized as a saint, and military support for the Haldane Restoration of 904 is provided by Michaeline knights, a militant religious order.

Haldane and critical
Other scientists at that time, such as John Haldane, related science to social philosophy, and showed how critical approaches to social analysis are very relevant to science, and to our understanding of the need for science.
Although some UOTC can trace their origins even earlier, the modern OTC was founded during the Haldane Reforms in 1908 to remedy a critical shortage of officers during the South African War ( 1899 – 1902 ).

Haldane and .
Asquith, Edward Grey, and Richard Burdon Haldane forming a clique dubbed the " Liberal Imperialists " that supported the government in the prosecution of the war.
Although he presided over a large majority, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was overshadowed by his ministers, most notably Herbert Henry Asquith at the Exchequer, Edward Grey at the Foreign Office, Richard Burdon Haldane at the War Office and David Lloyd George at the Board of Trade.
B. S. Haldane
The Haldane Reforms of 1907, formally created the Territorial Force as the Army's volunteer reserve component.
B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist ( b. 1892 )
This increased affinity for carbon dioxide by the venous blood is known as the Haldane effect.
Haldane.
Haldane, whose books were in the school's library despite the bad reputation Haldane had at Eton for his communism.
Maynard Smith then took a change of career, entering University College London ( UCL ) to study fruit fly genetics under Haldane.
In February 1912 the British war minister, Viscount Haldane, came to Berlin to discuss possible limits to naval expansion.
* 1860 – John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist ( d. 1936 )
The militia was transformed into the Special Reserve by the military reforms of Haldane in the reforming post 1906 Liberal government.
Haldane and G. R. T.
This work is traditionally cited with the initials HR ( for Haldane and Ross ) followed by a volume number in Roman numerals ; thus HRII refers to volume 2 of this edition.
B. S. Haldane, British geneticist ( b. 1892 )
B. S. Haldane publishes The Causes of Evolution and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.

Sewall and Wright
* Sewall G. Wright used statistics in the development of modern population genetics
* Sewall Wright
Hayek's first class at Chicago was a faculty seminar on the philosophy of science attended by many of the University's most notable scientists of the time, including Enrico Fermi, Sewall Wright and Leó Szilárd.
" Despite such differences between the two models, earlier critiques — from such eminent commentators as Sewall Wright and G. G. Simpson — have argued that punctuated equilibrium is little more than quantum evolution relabeled.
In 1978, Sewall Wright suggested that human populations that have long inhabited separated parts of the world should, in general, be considered different subspecies by the usual criterion that most individuals of such populations can be allocated correctly by inspection.
This is in part because research into the genetics of guinea pigs has lagged behind that of other rodents, although geneticists W. E. Castle and Sewall Wright made a number of contributions to this area of study, especially regarding coat color.
Sewall Wright focused on combinations of genes that interacted as complexes, and the effects of inbreeding on small relatively isolated populations, which could exhibit genetic drift.
One school of thought was developed by Sewall Wright at The University of Chicago, and further popularized by C. C. Li ( University of Chicago ) and J. L. Lush ( Iowa State University ).
Path Analysis was developed by Sewall Wright as a way of estimating heritability.
A fitness landscape, first conceptualized by Sewall Wright, is a way of visualising fitness in terms of a high-dimensional surface, in which height indicates fitness, and each of the other dimensions represents allele identity for a different gene.
Its primary founders were Sewall Wright, J.
The American biologist Sewall Wright, who had a background in animal breeding experiments, focused on combinations of interacting genes, and the effects of inbreeding on small, relatively isolated populations that exhibited genetic drift.
She also joined May Wright Sewall at the International Council of Women meeting in Washington, DC laying the permanent foundation for the National Council of Women.
The field was founded, in evolutionary terms, by the originators of the modern synthesis, R. A. Fisher, Sewall Wright and J.
The idea of studying evolution by visualizing the distribution of fitness values as a kind of landscape was first introduced by Sewall Wright in 1932.
Stone and Anthony selected prominent women's rights activists to form the two committees: representing the NWSA would be May Wright Sewall, Rachel Foster, Clara Colby, Olympia Brown, Laura Johns and Harriet Shattuck ; the AWSA group was to be Alice Stone Blackwell, William Dudley Foulke, Julia Ward Howe, Hannah Tracy Cutler, Mary Thomas, Margaret Campbell, and Anna Howard Shaw.
It was first fully outlined by Ernst Mayr in 1942, using existing theoretical work by those such as Sewall Wright.
Sewall Wright was the first to attach this significance to random drift and small, newly isolated populations with his shifting balance theory of speciation.
Like Fisher, he continued the natural selection versus genetic drift debate with Sewall Wright, whom Ford believed put too much emphasis on genetic drift.
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Sewall Wright, who had many disagreements with Fisher, reviewed the book and wrote that it was " certain to take rank as one of the major contributions to the theory of evolution ".
The misunderstanding can be seen largely as a result of Fisher's feud with the American geneticist Sewall Wright primarily about adaptive landscapes.

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