My 10 questions for James F. Crow are up. It isn't often that a nobody gets to interview the greatest living thinker in a field (theoretical population genetics), so you should check it out.
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In the 10 Questions for A.W.F. Edwards, a mathematical geneticist, he was asked:
Like Fisher you have worked in both statistics and genetics. How do you see the relationship between them, both in your own work and more generally?
Edwards responded in part:
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In Unequal by nature: A geneticist's perspective on human differences, James F. Crow states:
Two populations may have a large overlap and differ only slightly in their means. Still, the most outstanding individuals will tend to come from the population with the higher mean.
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