A. W. F. Edwards
A. W. F. Edwards | |
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Edwards at the Royal Society admissions day in 2015 | |
| Born | Anthony William Fairbank Edwards 4 October 1935 London, England |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Mathematical genetics |
| Father | Harold C. Edwards |
| Relatives | John H. Edwards (brother) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics, genetics |
| Institutions | |
| Academic advisors | Ronald Fisher |
| Doctoral students | Elizabeth A. Thompson |
| Website | royalsociety |
Anthony William Fairbank Edwards, FRS (born 4 October 1935) is a British statistician, geneticist and evolutionary biologist. Edwards is regarded as one of Britain's most distinguished geneticists, and as one of the most influential mathematical geneticists in history. He is the son of the surgeon Harold C. Edwards, and brother of medical geneticist John H. Edwards. Edwards has sometimes been called "Fisher's Edwards" to distinguish him from his brother, because he was mentored by Ronald Fisher. In 1963 and 1964, Edwards, along with Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, introduced novel methods for computing evolutionary trees from genetical data.