The outstanding scientist, R.A. Fisher: his views on eugenics and race

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R.A. Fisher was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century (Fig. 1 ). He was a man of extraordinary ability and originality whose scientific contributions ranged over a very wide area of science, from biology through statistics to ideas on continental drift, and whose work has had a huge positive impact on human welfare. Not surprisingly, some of his large volume of work is not widely used or accepted at...

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