Ronald Fisher

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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS[5] was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic.[6] For his work in statistics, he has been described as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science"[7][8] and "the single most important figure in 20th century statistics".[9] In genetics, his work used mathematics to combine Mendelian genetics and natural selection; this contributed to the revival of Darwinism in the early 20th-century revision of the theory of evolution known as the modern synthesis, being the one to most comprehensively combine the ideas of Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin.[10] For his contributions to biology, Richard Dawkins proclaimed Fisher as "the greatest of Darwin’s successors".[11] He is considered one of the founding fathers of Neo-Darwinism.[12][13] <

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