The “Sewall Wright Effect”

2002 Sewall Wright Award. Linda Partridge.

Sewall Wright: A Life in Evolution

54 RESONANCE December 1999 Population genetics, the study of how the genetic composition of populations changes over time under the influence of mutation, migration and natural or artificial selection, is one of the few areas in biology that rests upon a thorough and rigorous theoretical foundation. This foundation is itself almost entirely the result of the intellectual labours of three people...

Sewall Wright and Gustave Malécot on Isolation by Distance

Sewall Wright ’ s adaptive landscapes : 1932 vs . 1988

Sewall Wright introduced the metaphor of evolution on ‘‘adaptive landscapes’’ in a pair of papers published in 1931 and 1932. The metaphor has been one of the most influential in modern evolutionary biology, although recent theoretical advancements show that it is deeply flawed and may have actually created research questions that are not, in fact, fecund. In this paper I examine in detail what...

Sewall Wright: 21 December 1889-3 March 1988.