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The “Sewall Wright Effect”
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The “Sewall Wright Effect”

  • R A Fisher F.R.S.1 &
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Heredity volume 4, pages 117–119 (1950)Cite this article

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Fisher, R., Ford, E. The “Sewall Wright Effect”. Heredity 4, 117–119 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1950.8

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