• Sewall Green Wright FRS(For) Honorary FRSE (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary...
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  • frequency of one allele is assigned p and the other q. The Wright–Fisher model (named after Sewall Wright and Ronald Fisher) assumes that generations do not overlap...
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    May Wright Sewall (née Mary Eliza Wright; May 27, 1844 – July 22, 1920) was an American reformer, who was known for her service to the causes of education...
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    Ernst Mayr in 1942, using existing theoretical work by those such as Sewall Wright. As a result of the loss of genetic variation, the new population may...
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  • Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences, previously known as the Sewall Wright Award, is given annually by the American Society of Naturalists to a...
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    and clarifies the relationship between the two. According to Ishida, Sewall Wright's isolation by distance theory is termed ecological isolation by distance...
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  • genetics is described in the Wright-Fisher model after Sewall Wright and Ronald Fisher (1922, 1930) and (1931). Wright-Fisher populations have constant...
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  • distribution of fitness values as a kind of landscape was first introduced by Sewall Wright in 1932. In evolutionary optimization problems, fitness landscapes are...
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  • two individuals. The term coefficient of relationship was defined by Sewall Wright in 1922, and was derived from his definition of the coefficient of inbreeding...
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  • recently molecular genetics and is based on the pioneering work of Sewall Wright, Jay Lush, and Charles Henderson. Breeding stock is a group of animals...
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  • emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis. Its primary founders were Sewall Wright, J. B. S. Haldane and Ronald Fisher, who also laid the foundations for...
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    following years as a biostatistician. Together with J. B. S. Haldane and Sewall Wright, Fisher is known as one of the three principal founders of population...
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    genetics in his biography of Sewall Wright, who was still alive and available for interviews. In this book, Provine criticizes Wright for confounding three different...
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  • American population geneticist Sewall Wright. The paper was first published in Genetics volume 16, pages 97–159. In it, Wright outlines various concepts,...
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    earliest works. Wright was the father of geneticist Sewall Wright. Wright was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1861 to John Seward Wright and Mary Clark...
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  • geneticist Sewall Wright. Depending on the quantity of interest, effective population size can be defined in several ways. Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright originally...
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    it remains a classic example in the teaching of evolution. In 1978, Sewall Wright described it as "the clearest case in which a conspicuous evolutionary...
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  • he received the Weldon Memorial Prize. In 2018, he was awarded the Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists. "John McNamara". Royal...
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    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...
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  • trio of the modern synthesis, Ronald Fisher, J. B. S. Haldane, and Sewall Wright. Kimura was born on November 13, 1924, in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture...
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  • F-statistics was developed during the 1920s by the American geneticist Sewall Wright, who was interested in inbreeding in cattle. However, because complete...
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  • and selection bias. Causal graphs were first used by the geneticist Sewall Wright under the rubric "path diagrams". They were later adopted by social...
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    integrated with natural selection by Ronald Fisher, J. B. S. Haldane, and Sewall Wright during the 1910s to 1930s, and resulted in the founding of the new discipline...
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    coefficient of determination has been attributed to the geneticist Sewall Wright and was first published in 1921. Anscombe's quartet Fraction of variance...
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  • businessman and politician from Maine May Wright Sewall (1844–1920), American feminist, educator, and lecturer Richard B. Sewall (1908–2003), American professor...
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  • of America, 1983 Elected to The National Academy of Sciences, 1986 Sewall Wright Award, 1996 American Society of Naturalists Honorary Lifetime Membership...
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    the notion of ontopoetics as a version of panpsychism. The geneticist Sewall Wright endorsed a version of panpsychism. He believed that consciousness is...
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  • the economist Philip Green Wright and his brothers were the geneticist Sewall Wright and the political scientist Quincy Wright. He graduated from Lombard...
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    adequate explanation of how such forms evolved. The population geneticist Sewall Wright focused on combinations of genes that interacted as complexes, and the...
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    (SEM) began differentiating itself from correlation and regression when Sewall Wright provided explicit causal interpretations for a set of regression-style...
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