A note on the background to, and refereeing of, R. A. Fisher’s 1918 paper ‘On the correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance’

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ID20314865
AuthorsBernard Norton (University College London), B G Norton (UCL Australia), Egon Sharpe Pearson (University College London)
EditorsReginald Victor Jones, William Drummond MacDonald Paton
Year1976
Volume31
Issue1
Pages151-162
Publication date1976-07-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNotes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0035-9149 • E-ISSN: 1743-0178
PublisherThe Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1098/rsnr.1976.0005
PMID11609929
OpenAlexW2074596476
LanguageEN
Citations received7

The controversy between the biometricians W. F. R. Weldon and Karl Pearson on the one hand, and William Bateson and his fellow Mendelian theorists on the other, which came to a head after 1900, the date of the rediscovery of Mendel’s ideas, leaves ripples which have still not entirely died down. We have recently, for example, had brought to our notice a review by Oscar Kempthorne of Volume 1 of the Collected papers of R. A. Fisher, which, very naturally, refers to Fisher’s 1918 paper on ‘The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance’, finally published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Biology · Correlation · Genealogy · Inheritance (genetic algorithm) · Mendelian inheritance · Notice · Political science · Sociology · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies · Genetics · Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science

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