Phylogenetic Inference, Selection Theory, and History of Science: Selected Papers of A. W. F. Edwards with Commentaries

Cambridge University Press, 7/19/2018
EAN 9781107111721, ISBN10: 1107111722

Hardcover, 552 pages, 25.8 x 17.7 x 3 cm
Language: English

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 science Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Edwards's key papers are assembled alongside commentaries by leading scientists, discussing Edwards's influence on their own research and on thinking in their field overall. In an extensive interview with Winther, Edwards offers his thoughts on his contributions, their legacy, and the context in which they emerged. This book is a resource both for anyone interested in the history and philosophy of genetics, statistics, and science, and for scientists seeking to develop new algorithmic and statistical methods for understanding the genetic relationships between and among species both extant and extinct.

Introduction Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
Part I. Selected Papers of A. W. F. Edwards
1. The reconstruction of evolution (1963) with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza
2. Reconstruction of evolutionary trees (1964) with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza
3. Analysis of human evolution under random genetic drift (1964) with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza and I. Barrai
4. Analysis of human evolution (1965) with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza
5. A method for cluster analysis (1965) with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza
6. Studying human evolution by computer (1966)
7. Estimation procedures for evolutionary branching processes (1966) with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza
8. Fundamental theorem of natural selection (1967)
9. Phylogenetic analysis
models and estimation procedures (1967) with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza
10. Statistical methods in scientific inference (1969)
11. Estimation of the branch points of a branching diffusion process (1970)
12. Review of Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 2 by S. Wright (1971)
13. Affinity as revealed by differences in gene frequencies (1972) with L. L. Cavalli-Sforza
14. Likelihood (1972)
15. The history of likelihood (1974)
16. Are Mendel's results really too close? (1986)
17. Probability and likelihood in genetic counselling (1989)
18. The fundamental theorem of natural selection (1994)
19. Assessing molecular phylogenies (1995)
20. The origin and early development of the method of minimum evolution for the reconstruction of evolutionary trees (1996)
21. Darwin and Mendel united
the contributions of Fisher, Haldane and Wright up to 1932 (2001)
22. Human genetic diversity
Lewontin's fallacy (2003)
23. Parsimony and computers (2004)
24. Statistical methods for evolutionary trees (2009)
25. Mathematizing Darwin (2011)
26. Robert Heath Lock and his textbook of genetics, 1906 (2013)
27. R. A. Fisher's gene-centred view of evolution and the fundamental theorem of natural selection (2014)
28. Analysing nature's experiment
Fisher's inductive theorem of natural selection (2016)
Part II. Commentaries
29. Anthony Edwards' seminal contributions to phylogenetics, likelihood, and understanding R. A. Fisher and the history of genetics Walter Bodmer
30. Anthony Edwards, Luca Cavalli-Sforza, and phylogenies Joseph Felsenstein
31. The historic split and merger of gene trees and species trees Rasmus Nielsen
32. Likelihood and the comparative method in evolutionary biology Mark Pagel
33. Likelihood inference in models for the genetic diversity of populations Elizabeth Thompson
34. A. W. F. Edwards and the origin of Bayesian phylogenetics Ziheng Yang
35. A conversation about Fisher (1930, 1958) Warren J. Ewens
36. Edwards on Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection Samir Okasha
37. A. W. F. Edwards, R. A. Fisher and the genetical theory of natural selection Maurizio Esposito
38. Reading and misreading Fisher
Anthony Edwards and the history of population genetics Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl
39. Variance-partitioning and classification in human population genetics Noah A. Rosenberg
Part III. Interviews with A. W. F. Edwards
Day 1
Selection theory
Day 2
Phylogenetic inference
Day 3
Edwards and Fisher
Part IV. A. W. F. Edwards
40. A W. F. Edwards
curriculum vitae
41. A. W. F. Edwards
list of scientific publications
Appendices
a geometric interpretation of Edwards 2003 Amir Najmi
The genetic reification of 'race'
a story of two mathematical methods Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
'My Fisher' A. W. F. Edwards
1963 Antonio's theorem.