most celebrated argument in evolutionary biology". Fisher's principle was outlined by Ronald Fisher in his 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection...

and Sewall Wright, Fisher is known as one of the three principal founders of population genetics. He outlined Fisher's principle, the Fisherian runaway...

or to have only hermaphroditic flowers. R.A. Fisher developed an explanation, known as Fisher's principle, of why sex ratios in many animals are 1:1. If...

is the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which...

unexplained, effect. Fisher's principle is an explanation of why the sex ratio of most species is approximately 1:1. Outlined by Ronald Fisher in his 1930 book...

such as Fisherian runaway, Fisher's principle, reproductive value, Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection, Fisher's geometric model, the sexy...

is the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which...

son hypothesis indicates that females would prefer male offspring, Fisher's principle explains why the sex ratio is most often 1:1. Sexual selection is...

capacity as a parental caregiver, territory and any nuptial gifts. Fisher's principle means that the sex ratio (except in certain eusocial insects) is always...

Selection, he applied statistics to various biological concepts such as Fisher's principle (which A. W. F. Edwards called "probably the most celebrated argument...

Fisher's exact test is a statistical significance test used in the analysis of contingency tables. Although in practice it is employed when sample sizes...

In information theory, the principle of minimum Fisher information (MFI) is a variational principle which, when applied with the proper constraints needed...

lifespan perspectives of personality are based on the plasticity principle, the principle that personality traits are open systems that can be influenced...

This resulted in the autosome becoming a novel W sex chromosome. Fisher's principle Haldane's rule XY sex-determination system ZW sex-determination system...

fact that the disappearance of the Y chromosome is not guaranteed. Fisher's principle outlines why almost all species using sexual reproduction have a sex...

The uncertainty principle, also known as Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle, is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics. It states that there is...

competition between species for limited resources (the competitive exclusion principle). If one species can out-compete another, this could produce species selection...

allele frequency is autocorrelated across generations. The Hardy–Weinberg principle states that within sufficiently large populations, the allele frequencies...

MacArthur and W. D. Hamilton's work on sex ratios, derived from Fisher's principle, especially Hamilton's (1967) concept of an unbeatable strategy. Maynard...

parental investment, introduced the sexy son hypothesis, and introduced Fisher's principle. In 1948, Angus John Bateman published an influential study of fruit...

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selection Coevolution Cultural group selection Dual inheritance theory Fisher's principle Group selection Hologenome theory Lamarckism Population Punctuated...

this would have a bearing on one's inference about the population mean. Fisher's factorization theorem or factorization criterion provides a convenient...

Artificial selection Biodiversity Evolutionarily stable strategy Fisher's principle Fitness Inclusive Gene flow Genetic drift Kin selection Parental investment...

selection Coevolution Cultural group selection Dual inheritance theory Fisher's principle Group selection Hologenome theory Lamarckism Population Punctuated...

This puzzle is solved by the concept of Fisher's principle (named 'parental expenditure') proposed by R.A. Fisher. This led to further work by Robert Trivers...

selection Coevolution Cultural group selection Dual inheritance theory Fisher's principle Group selection Hologenome theory Lamarckism Population Punctuated...

Evolutionary psychologists contend that perception demonstrates the principle of modularity, with specialized mechanisms handling particular perception...

selection Coevolution Cultural group selection Dual inheritance theory Fisher's principle Group selection Hologenome theory Lamarckism Population Punctuated...