Natural Selection and the Sex Ratio: Fisher's Sources¶
Edwards, A. W. F. (1998). Natural Selection and the Sex Ratio: Fisher's Sources: Fisher's Sources. The American Naturalist.
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- Fisher's Principle (Sex-Ratio Equilibrium)
- R. A. Fisher worked out the argument in 1930; it had been anticipated by Darwin in the first edition of The Descent of Man (1871), a passage Darwin withdrew from the second edition — the only edition Fisher owned — and again by the German biologist Carl Düsing, whose mathematical account rested on the same argument Darwin had advanced and which Fisher appears not to have known
This sourceEdwards's study of Fisher's sources, which establishes the anticipations this sentence describes: Darwin gave the argument in the first edition of The Descent of Man and withdrew it from the second — the only edition Fisher owned — while Carl Düsing reached the same argument independently, making Fisher's 1930 treatment a rediscovery rather than a descendant.
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- R. A. Fisher worked out the argument in 1930; it had been anticipated by Darwin in the first edition of The Descent of Man (1871), a passage Darwin withdrew from the second edition — the only edition Fisher owned — and again by the German biologist Carl Düsing, whose mathematical account rested on the same argument Darwin had advanced and which Fisher appears not to have known
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