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Wednesday 30 April 2025, 10:15-11:15
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- 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 30 April 2025, 10:15 - 11:15
- 📍 Venue: Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
Abstract
Modern science is a numbers game. The last century or so has seen the life sciences become ever more quantitative and data-centric. In the anglophone context, few figures have been more influential in this transformation than British statistician, geneticist and eugenicist Ronald Aylmer Fisher. In this talk I will summarise aspects of my research on Fisher’s contributions to evolutionary theory, and his advocacy of eugenics, highlighting contemporary criticisms of his work in both spheres. These critical perspectives, I suggest, underline the need for counter-histories of mathematisation, in science and in public life.
Series This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.
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