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'''Anthony William Fairbank Edwards''', [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (born 1935) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[statistician]], [[geneticist]], and [[evolutionary biologist]], sometimes called [[The Edwards brothers, Fisher, and Hogben|Fisher's Edwards]] because he was mentored by [[Ronald Fisher]]. He is a Life Fellow of [[Gonville and Caius College]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/anthony-edwards|title=Professor Anthony Edwards|publisher=Gonville & Caius College|accessdate=2 May 2015}}</ref> and retired Professor of Biometry at the [[University of Cambridge]], and holds both the ScD and LittD degrees. He has written several books and numerous scientific papers. He is best known for his pioneering work, with [[Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza|L.L. Cavalli-Sforza]], on quantitative methods of [[phylogenetics|phylogenetic analysis]], and for strongly advocating Fisher's concept of [[likelihood principle|likelihood]] as the proper basis for [[statistical inference|statistical]] and scientific inference. He has also written extensively on the history of genetics and statistics, including an analysis of whether [[Gregor Mendel|Mendel's]] results were "too good", and also on purely mathematical subjects, such as [[Venn diagram]]s.
'''Anthony William Fairbank Edwards''', [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (born 1935) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[statistician]], [[geneticist]], and [[evolutionary biologist]], sometimes called"Fisher's Edwards" because he was mentored by [[Ronald Fisher]]. He is a Life Fellow of [[Gonville and Caius College]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/anthony-edwards|title=Professor Anthony Edwards|publisher=Gonville & Caius College|accessdate=2 May 2015}}</ref> and retired Professor of Biometry at the [[University of Cambridge]], and holds both the ScD and LittD degrees. He has written several books and numerous scientific papers. He is best known for his pioneering work, with [[Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza|L.L. Cavalli-Sforza]], on quantitative methods of [[phylogenetics|phylogenetic analysis]], and for strongly advocating Fisher's concept of [[likelihood principle|likelihood]] as the proper basis for [[statistical inference|statistical]] and scientific inference. He has also written extensively on the history of genetics and statistics, including an analysis of whether [[Gregor Mendel|Mendel's]] results were "too good", and also on purely mathematical subjects, such as [[Venn diagram]]s.


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Anthony William Fairbank Edwards, FRS (born 1935) is a British statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist, sometimes called"Fisher's Edwards" because he was mentored by Ronald Fisher. He is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College[1] and retired Professor of Biometry at the University of Cambridge, and holds both the ScD and LittD degrees. He has written several books and numerous scientific papers. He is best known for his pioneering work, with L.L. Cavalli-Sforza, on quantitative methods of phylogenetic analysis, and for strongly advocating Fisher's concept of likelihood as the proper basis for statistical and scientific inference. He has also written extensively on the history of genetics and statistics, including an analysis of whether Mendel's results were "too good", and also on purely mathematical subjects, such as Venn diagrams.

In a 2003 paper,[2] Edwards criticized Richard Lewontin's argument in a 1972 paper that race is an invalid taxonomic construct, terming it Lewontin's fallacy.

In 2015 Edwards was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society [3]

His elder brother John H. Edwards (1928–2007) was also a geneticist and also an FRS; their father, Harold C. Edwards, was a surgeon. He was awarded the Telesio-Galilei Academy Award in 2011 for Biology.

Edwards is also known for his involvement in gliding, particularly within the Cambridge University Gliding Club and for his writing on the subject in Sailplane and Gliding magazine as "The Armchair Pilot".

6-set Edwards–Venn diagram

Publications

Books

  • Edwards, A.W.F. 1972. Likelihood. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (expanded edition, 1992, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore). ISBN 0-8018-4443-6
  • Edwards, A.W.F. 1977. Foundations of Mathematical Genetics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2nd ed., 2000). ISBN 0-521-77544-2
  • Edwards, A.W.F. 1987. Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle: The Story of a Mathematical Idea. Charles Griffin, London (paperback edition, 2002, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore). ISBN 0-8018-6946-3
  • David, H.A. and A.W.F. Edwards. 2001. Annotated Readings in the History of Statistics. Springer, New York. ISBN 0-387-98844-0
  • Edwards, A.W.F. 2004. Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-7434-3
  • Keynes, M., A.W.F. Edwards and R. Peel, eds. 2004. A Century of Mendelism in Human Genetics. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. ISBN 0-415-32960-4
  • Franklin, A., A.W.F. Edwards, D.J. Fairbanks, D.L. Hartl and T. Seidenfeld. 2008. Ending the Mendel-Fisher Controversy. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh. ISBN 0-8229-4319-0

Selected papers

  • Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. and A.W.F. Edwards. 1964. Analysis of human evolution. Genetics Today 3:923–933.
  • Edwards, A.W.F, and L.L. Cavalli-Sforza. 1964. Reconstruction of evolutionary trees. pp. 67–76 in Phenetic and Phylogenetic Classification, ed. V. H. Heywood and J. McNeill. Systematics Association pub. no. 6, London.
  • Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. and A.W.F. Edwards. 1967. Phylogenetic analysis: models and estimation procedures. American Journal of Human Genetics 19:233–257.
  • Edwards, A.W.F. 1969. Statistical methods in scientific inference. Nature 222:1233–1237.
  • Edwards, A.W.F. 1974. The history of likelihood. International Statistical Review 42:9–15.
  • Edwards, A.W.F. 1986. Are Mendel's results really too close? Biological Reviews 61:295–312.
  • Edwards, A.W.F. 1996. The origin and early development of the method of minimum evolution for the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees. Systematic Biology 45:79–91.
  • Edwards, A.W.F. 2000. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. Genetics 154:1419–1426.
  • Edwards, A.W.F. 2003. Human genetic diversity: Lewontin's fallacy. BioEssays 25:798–801.

References

  1. ^ "Professor Anthony Edwards". Gonville & Caius College. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  2. ^ Edwards, A. W. F. (2003). "Human genetic diversity: Lewontin's fallacy". BioEssays. 25 (8): 798–801. doi:10.1002/bies.10315. PMID 12879450.
  3. ^ "Professor Anthony Edwards FRS". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2 May 2015.


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