{"id":182232,"date":"2008-07-18T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T21:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2008\/07\/18\/r-a-fisher-and-epistasis\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"r-a-fisher-and-epistasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/2008\/07\/18\/r-a-fisher-and-epistasis\/","title":{"rendered":"R. A. Fisher and Epistasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David takes a slight detour in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/cse?cx=017254414699180528062%3Auyrcvn__yd0&amp;q=sewall+wright+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fscienceblogs.com%2Fgnxp%2F&amp;sa=Search\">Sewall Wright<\/a>, series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/r-fisher-and-epistasis_18.php\">R. A. Fisher and Epistasis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My next note on Sewall Wright will cover the exciting subject of the adaptive landscape. As every schoolboy knows, Wright considered epistatic gene interactions very important in determining the &#8216;peaks&#8217; of the landscape. A sharp contrast is sometimes drawn between Wright and R. A. Fisher in this respect&#8230;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a preamble to a <i>very long<\/i> and dense post.  If it interests you in the subject, I&#8217;d also recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0195128060\/\/geneexpressio-20\">Epistasis and the Evolutionary Process<\/a>. You might also check out this  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/through-rugged-roads-of-gene-land.php\">older post of mine<\/a> on evolutionary epistasis.<br \/>\n<b>Related:<\/b> <a>Notes on Sewall Wright: Population Size<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/notes-on-sewall-wright-measurement-of.php\">Notes on Sewall Wright: the Measurement of Kinship<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/notes-on-sewall-wright-path-analysis.php\">Notes on Sewall Wright: Path Analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/on-reading-wright.php\">On Reading Wright<\/a> and <a>Notes on Sewall Wright: Migration<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David takes a slight detour in this Sewall Wright, series, R. A. Fisher and Epistasis: My next note on Sewall Wright will cover the exciting subject of the adaptive landscape. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawqfx-Lpe","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}