Phylogenetic Inference, Selection Theory, and History of Science

A. W. F. Edwards is one of the most influential mathematical geneticists in the history of the discipline. One of the last students of R. A. Fisher, Edwards pioneered the statistical analysis of phylogeny in collaboration with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, and helped establish Fisher''s concept of likelihood as a standard of statistical and scientific inference. In this book, edited by philosopher of scie...