The R. A. Fisher—Sewall Wright Controversy

The intense controversy between R. A. Fisher and Sewall Wright, which lasted from 1929 until Fisher’s death in 1962, was both highly visible ana very influential in modern evolutionary biology. The controversy between Fisher and Wright has had a more fundamental and lasting impact upon evolutionary biology than any other controversy or rivalry in this century. Indeed, the controversy did not end with Fisher’s death. Since 1962, Wright has produced a steady stream of papers and his four volume Evolution and the Genetics of Populations (1968, 1969, 1977, 1978a) in which he constantly contrasts his interpretations with those of Fisher. Many others have joined the battle on both sides.

[1]  R. Fisher.  The Evolution of Dominance; Reply to Professor Sewall Wright , 1929, The American Naturalist.

[2]  Sewall Wright,et al.  ON THE ROLES OF DIRECTED AND RANDOM CHANGES IN GENE FREQUENCY IN THE GENETICS OF POPULATIONS , 1948, Evolution; international journal of organic evolution.

[3]  E. Mayr.  The Species Problem , 1974 .

[4]  R. A. Brink,et al.  Heritage from Mendel. , 1967 .

[5]  T. Dobzhansky.  Genetics and the Origin of Species , 1937 .

[6]  R A Fisher,et al.  The spread of a gene in natural conditions in a colony of the moth Panaxia dominula L. , 1947, Heredity.

[7]  C. Diver.  Fossil Records of Mendelian Mutants , 1929, Nature.

[8]  R. Fisher.  Professor Wright on the Theory of Dominance , 1934, The American Naturalist.

[9]  W. Provine.  Sewall Wright and evolutionary biology , 1987 .

[10]  Sewall Wright,et al.  Variability within and among natural populations , 1978 .

[11]  Julian Huxley,et al.  The new systematics , 1941 .

[12]  S. Wright.  THE GENETICAL THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTIONA Review , 1930 .

[13]  J. Haldane.  A Defense of Beanbag Genetics , 2015, Perspectives in biology and medicine.

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[15]  G. Ledyard Stebbins,et al.  Variation and Evolution in Plants , 1951 .

[16]  E. Mayr.  Systematics and the Origin of Species , 1942 .

[17]  S. Wright,et al.  The shifting balance theory and macroevolution. , 1982, Annual review of genetics.

[18]  Sewall Wright,et al.  Experimental results and evolutionary deductions , 1977 .

[19]  A. Edwards,et al.  Natural selection, heredity, and eugenics , 1983 .

[20]  S. Wright,et al.  Systems of Mating. III. Assortative Mating Based on Somatic Resemblance. , 1921, Genetics.

[21]  P. Sheppard,et al.  Selection in the polymorphic land snail Cepæa nemoralis , 1950, Heredity.

[22]  Sewall Wright,et al.  Physiological and Evolutionary Theories of Dominance , 1934, The American Naturalist.

[23]  R. Fisher.  XV.—The Correlation between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance. , 1919, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

[24]  G. Dover.  Dimensions of Darwinism: Edited by Marjorie Grene. Pp. 336. Cambridge University Press, with Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. 1983. £15.00 ($29.95) , 1984 .

[25]  Newton E. Morton,et al.  Fisher, the life of a scientist. , 1979 .

[26]  S. Wright,et al.  Systems of Mating. IV. the Effects of Selection. , 1921, Genetics.

[27]  Rory A. Fisher,et al.  Two Further Notes on the Origin of Dominance , 1928, The American Naturalist.

[28]  S. Wright.  Evolution in mendelian populations , 1931 .

[29]  S. Wright.  Fisher and Ford on "The Sewall Wright effect.". , 1951, American scientist.

[30]  R A Fisher,et al.  The “Sewall Wright Effect” , 1950, Heredity.

[31]  S. Wright.  Systems of Mating. II. the Effects of Inbreeding on the Genetic Composition of a Population. , 1921, Genetics.

[32]  R. A. Fisher,et al.  On the dominance ratio , 1990 .

[33]  Sewall Wright,et al.  Genetic and Biometric Foundations , 1968 .

[34]  S. Wright.  The Evolution of Dominance , 1929, The American Naturalist.

[35]  Rory A. Fisher,et al.  XXI.—On the Dominance Ratio , 1923 .

[36]  Sewall Wright,et al.  Fisher's Theory of Dominance , 1929, The American Naturalist.

[37]  S. Wright,et al.  The Distribution of Self-Sterility Alleles in Populations. , 1939, Genetics.

[38]  G. Simpson.  Tempo and mode in evolution. , 1946, Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences.

[39]  S. Wright.  DOBZHANSKY'S GENETICS OF NATURAL POPULATIONS , 1982 .

[40]  A. Jacot.  The Status of the Species and the Genus , 1932, The American Naturalist.

[41]  W. Provine,et al.  Role of Mathematical Population Geneticists in the Evolutionary Synthesis of the 1930’s and 40’s , 1977 .

[42]  Sewall Wright,et al.  The theory of gene frequencies , 1969 .

[43]  Rory A. Fisher,et al.  The Possible Modification of the Response of the Wild Type to Recurrent Mutations , 1928, The American Naturalist.

[44]  Sewall Wright,et al.  The Relation of Livestock Breeding to Theories of Evolution , 1978 .

[45]  R. A. Fisher,et al.  The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection , 1931 .

[46]  David Kohn,et al.  The Darwinian Heritage , 1988 .

[47]  J. Huxley.  Evolution: The Modern Synthesis , 1943 .

[48]  S. Wright,et al.  Systems of Mating. I. the Biometric Relations between Parent and Offspring. , 1921, Genetics.