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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. ==Career and research== Edwards is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Professor Anthony Edwards )〕 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, Edwards criticized Richard Lewontin's argument in a 1972 paper that race is an invalid taxonomic construct, terming it Lewontin's fallacy. Edwards was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Professor Anthony Edwards FRS )〕 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". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A. W. F. Edwards」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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