Article ID: CBB000850683

R. A. Fisher, Lancelot Hogben, and the Origin(s) of Genotype--Environment Interaction (2008)

unapi

Abstract This essay examines the origin(s) of genotype--environment interaction, or G x E. Origin(s) and not the origin because the thesis is that there were actually two distinct concepts of G x E at this beginning: a biometric concept, or G x EB, and a developmental concept, or G x ED. R. A. Fisher, one of the founders of population genetics and the creator of the statistical analysis of variance, introduced the biometric concept as he attempted to resolve one of the main problems in the biometric tradition of biology -- partitioning the relative contributions of nature and nurture responsible for variation in a population. Lancelot Hogben, an experimental embryologist and also a statistician, introduced the developmental concept as he attempted to resolve one of the main problems in the developmental tradition of biology -- determining the role that developmental relationships between genotype and environment played in the generation of variation. To argue for this thesis, I outline Fisher and Hogben's separate routes to their respective concepts of G x E; then these separate interpretations of G x E are drawn on to explicate a debate between Fisher and Hogben over the importance of G x E, the first installment of a persistent controversy. Finally, Fisher's G x EB and Hogben's G x ED are traced beyond their own work into mid-20th century population and developmental genetics, and then into the infamous IQ Controversy of the 1970s.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000850683/

Similar Citations

Article Yafeng Shan; (2021)
Beyond Mendelism and Biometry (/isis/citation/CBB308136354/)

Article Porter, Theodore M.; (2014)
The Curious Case of Blending Inheritance (/isis/citation/CBB001420141/)

Article Plutynski, Anya; (2006)
What Was Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection and What Was It For? (/isis/citation/CBB000770716/)

Chapter Skipper, Robert A., Jr.; (2009)
Revisiting the Fisher-Wright Controversy (/isis/citation/CBB001022530/)

Book Franklin, Allan; (2008)
Ending the Mendel-Fisher Controversy (/isis/citation/CBB000831102/)

Article Rao, Veena; Nanjundiah, Vidyanand; (2011)
J. B. S. Haldane, Ernst Mayr and the Beanbag Genetics Dispute (/isis/citation/CBB001034558/)

Article Warren J. Ewens; (2019)
Quantifying evolution by natural selection (/isis/citation/CBB740058122/)

Article Theunissen, Bert; (2009)
De evolutietheorie bestaat niet (/isis/citation/CBB001031842/)

Book Dronamraju, Krishna; (2010)
Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics (/isis/citation/CBB001022740/)

Article Glick, Thomas F.; (2008)
O Programa Brasileiro de genética evolucionária de populações, de Theodosius Dobzhansky (/isis/citation/CBB001035151/)

Article Roll-Hansen, Nils; (2009)
Sources of Wilhelm Johannsen's Genotype Theory (/isis/citation/CBB000932223/)

Article Rushton, A. R.; (2000)
Nettleship, Pearson and Bateson: The biometric-Mendelian debate in a medical context (/isis/citation/CBB000110375/)

Article Veronika Lipphardt; Gudrun A. Rappold; Mihai Surdu; (2021)
Representing vulnerable populations in genetic studies: The case of the Roma (/isis/citation/CBB692811795/)

Article Allen, Garland E.; (2013)
“Culling the Herd”: Eugenics and the Conservation Movement in the United States, 1900--1940 (/isis/citation/CBB001320044/)

Article Georgijevsky, Aleksander B.; (2011)
The Background of the Hardy-Weinberg Law (/isis/citation/CBB001220375/)

Authors & Contributors
Gudrun A. Rappold
Isabel Gabel
Bertoldi, Nicola
Yafeng Shan
Mihai Surdu
Theunissen, Bert
Concepts
Genetics
Evolution
Controversies and disputes
Population genetics
Biometry
Mendelism
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Europe
Brazil
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment