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Adam Rutherford: “Control: the dark history and troubling present of eugenics”

UserAdam Rutherford, Lecturer, Genes, Evolution and Environment, University College London, BBC Broadcaster.

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Rachell Sanchez-Rivera: "The histories and legacies of eugenics and its intersections with 'race', class, disability, and gender"

UserRachell Sanchez-Rivera, Research Fellow, Gonville & Caius, Affiliate Lecturer, ReproSoc, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

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ClockFriday 22 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Robert Proctor: "Why did Big Tobacco love (and fund) eugenicists like RA Fisher?"

UserRobert Proctor, Professor of History and, by courtesy, of Medicine Department of History, Stanford University.

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Richard Durbin: “Population genetic variation, inferred and observed”

UserRichard Durbin, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Sanger Institute.

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Qingyuan Zhao: "Fisher, statistics, and randomisation"

UserQingyuan Zhao, University Assistant Professor of Statistics, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, and a Fellow of the Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

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Aylwyn Scally: “Chance and ancestry in human genetics”

UserAylwyn Scally.

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Anne Ferguson-Smith: “Epigenetic variation within and across generations”

UserAnne Ferguson-Smith, Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

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ClockThursday 21 April 2022, 16:30-17:30

Jenny Bangham: “Blood, race and transfusion: Fisher’s work with the wartime Galton Serum Unit”

UserJenny Bangham, Wellcome University Award Lecturer; School of History, Queen Mary University of London.

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John Aston: “Fisher in the age of data science”

UserJohn Aston, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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Alan Grafen: “Fisher’s legacy in Darwinian biology”

UserAlan Grafen, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

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ClockThursday 21 April 2022, 11:40-12:40

Alex Aylward: “On reading a book of two halves: A long history of The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection”

UserAlex Aylward, Departmental Lecturer in the History of Science, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.

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ClockThursday 21 April 2022, 10:10-11:10

Nancy Reid: “Fisher’s Contributions to mathematical statistics”

UserNancy Reid, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto.

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