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The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers. Haldane, Wright, and Fisher are the pioneers of population genetics whose main research equipment was paper and ink rather than microscopes, experimental fields, Drosophila bottles, or mouse cages. Theirs is theoretical biology at its best, and it has provided a guiding light for rigorous quantitative experimentation and observation.
'A Review of Some Fundamental Concepts and Problems of Population Genetics', Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 1955, 20, 13-14.
See also: | Experiment (218) | Sir Ronald Aylmer Fischer (2) | Genetics (64) | J.B.S. Haldane (17) | Mathematics (226) | Gregor Mendel (7) | Microscope (28) | Thomas Hunt Morgan (8) | Observation (147) | Wright_Sewall (2)
There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.
Forword to Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species (2003), xiv.
