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Sewall Wright
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Sewall Wright
Sewall Green Wright
(December 16, 1889March 3, 1988) was an American
geneticist
known for his influential work on
evolutionary theory
and also for his work on
path analysis
. He was a founder of
population genetics
alongside
Ronald Fisher
and
J.B.S. Haldane
, which was a major step in the development of the
modern evolutionary synthesis
combining
genetics
with
evolution
. He discovered the
inbreeding coefficient
and methods of computing it in
pedigree animals
. He extended this work to
populations
, computing the amount of
inbreeding
between members of populations as a result of random
genetic drift
, and along with Fisher he pioneered methods for computing the distribution of
gene frequencies
among populations as a result of the interaction of
natural selection
,
mutation
, migration and genetic drift. Wright also made major contributions to
mammalian
and biochemical genetics.
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