Collected Papers of  R.A. Fisher
Relating to Genetics, Evolution, Eugenics and Miscellaneous

The CP numbers below refer to the paper number as published in "The Collected Papers of R.A. Fisher", edited by J.H. Bennett, published in five volumes by the University of Adelaide between 1971 and 1974.
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CP3 Some Hopes of a Eugenist.
Eugenics Review, 5: 309-315 (1914)
59k
CP9 The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 52: 399-433 (1918) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2.4M
CP24 On the Dominance Ratio.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 42: 321-341 (1922) Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
1.9M
CP26 Darwinian Evolution by Mutations.
Eugenics Review, 14: 31-34 (1922)
555k
CP59 On Some Objections to Mimicry Theory - Statistical and Genetic.
Transactions of the Royal Entom. Society of London, 75: 269-278 (1927)
50k
CP60 The Actuarial Treatment of Official Birth Records.
Eugenics Review, 19: 103-108 (1927)
48k
CP68 The Possible Modification of the Response of the Wild Type to Recurrent Mutations.
American Naturalist, 62: 115-126 (1928) Reproduced with permission of The University of Chicago Press.
77k
CP69 Two Further Notes on the Origin of Dominance.
American Naturalist, 62: 571-574 (1928) Reproduced with permission of The University of Chicago Press.
16k
CP70 Triplet Children in Great Britain and Ireland.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 102: 286-311 (1928). Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
1.03M
CP81 The Evolution of Dominance; Reply to Professor Sewall Wright.
American Naturalist, 63: 553-556 (1929) Reproduced with permission of The University of Chicago Press.
66k
CP86 The Distribution of Gene Ratios for Rare Mutations.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 50: 205-220 (1930). Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
1.1M
CP87 The Evolution of Dominance in Certain Polymorphic Species.
American Naturalist, 64: 385-406 (1930) Reproduced with permission of The University of Chicago Press.
718M
CP88 Mortality Amongst Plants and its Bearing on Natural Selection.
Nature, 125:972-973 (1930)
13k
CP93 The Evolution of Dominance.
Biological Reviews, 6: 345-368 (1931)
94k
CP96 (With F.R. Immer and O. Tedin). The Genetical Interpretation of Statistics of the Third Degree in the Study of Quantitative Inheritance.
Genetics, 17: 107-124 (1932)
1.2M
CP97 The Evolutionary Modification of Genetic Phenomena.
Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Genetics, 1: 165-172.
34k
CP98 The Bearing of Genetics on Theories of Evolution.
Science Progress, 27: 273-287 (1932) Reproduced with permission of Science Reviews Ltd.
62k
CP99 The Social Selection of Human Fertility.
The Herbert Spencer Lecture, 1932 Reproduced with permission of Oxford University Press.
55k
CP104 On the Evidence Against the Chemical Induction of Melanism in Lepidoptera.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 112: 407-416 (1933). Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
797k
CP105 Selection in the Production of the Ever-Sporting Stocks.
Annals of Botany, 47: 727-733 (1933).
169k
CP116 Some Results of an Experiment on Dominance in Poultry, with Special Reference to Polydactyly.
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 147: 71-81 (1934)
114k
CP117 Crest and Hernia in Fowls Due to a Single Gene Without Dominance.
Science,80: 288-289 (1934) Reproduced with permission of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
57k
CP119 Professor Wright on the Theory of Dominance.
American Naturalist, 68: 370-374. Reproduced with permission of The University of Chicago Press.
19k
CP121 Indeterminism and Natural Selection.
Philosophy of Science, 1: 99-117 (1934) Reproduced with permission of The University of Chicago Press.
84k
CP122 Adaptation and Mutations : A Lecture to the Science Masters' Association...
School Science Review, 15: 294-301 (1934) Reproduced with permission of the Association for Science Education
117k
CP133 The Sheltering of Lethals.
American Naturalist, 69: 446-455 (1935) Reproduced with permission of The University of Chicago Press.
838k
CP135 Dominance in Poultry.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 225: 197-226 (1935). Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
699k
CP144 Has Mendel's Work been Rediscovered?
Ann. Sci., 1: 115-137 (1936).
474k
CP147 The Measurement of Selective Intensity.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 121: 58-62 (1936). Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
494k
CP152 The Wave of Advance of Advantageous Genes.
Annals of Eugenics, 7: 355-369 (1937). Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press.
990k
CP153 The Relation Between Variability and Abundance Shown by the Measurements of the Eggs of British Nesting Birds.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 122: 1-26 (1937). Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
2.2M
CP161 Dominance in Poultry: feathered feet, rose comb, internal pigment and pile.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 125: 25-48 (1938). Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
2.9M
CP167 Selective Forces in Wild Populations of Paratettix texanus.
Annals of Eugenics, 9: 109-122 (1939) Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
793k
CP170 (With E.B. Ford and J. Huxley). Taste-testing the Anthropoid Apes.
Nature, 144: 750 (1939)
64k
CP172 The Galton Laboratory.
Science, 90: 436 (1939) (Originally printed in the Times (London), 29 Sept., 1939) Reproduced with permission of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
11k
CP179 (With G.L. Taylor). Scandinavian Influence in Scottish Ethnology.
Nature, 145: 590 (1940)
74k
CP180 The Galton Laboratory. 
Science, 91: 44-45 (1940) Reproduced with permission of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
10k
CP185 Average Excess and Average Effect of a Gene Substitution.
Annals of Eugenics, 11: 53-63 (1941). Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press.
1.4M
CP206 The Hereditary and Familial Aspects of Exophthalmic Goitre and Nodular Goitre.
Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 14: 207-219 (1945) Reproduced with permission of Oxford University Press
258k
CP213 The Theory of Linkage in Polysomic Inheritance.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 233: 55-87 (1947). Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
2.5M
CP214 The Rhesus Factor : A Study in Scientific Method.
American Scientist, 35: 95-103 (1947) Reproduced with permission of the Scientific Research Society
1.15M
CP219 The Spread of a Gene in Natural Conditions in a Colony of the Moth Panaxia Dominula L.
Heredity, 1: 143-174 (1947) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
1.8M
CP221 The Sex Chromosome in the House Mouse.
Heredity, 1: 355-365 (1947) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
521k
CP226 A Twelfth Linkage Group of the House Mouse.
Heredity, 2: 271-273 (1948) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
175k
CP229 What Sort of Man is Lysenko?
Listener, 40: 874-875 (1948)
17k
CP231 Note on the Test of Significance for Differential Viability in Frequency Data from a Complete Three-Point Test.
Heredity, 3: 215-219, (1949). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
770k
CP232 The Quantitative Study of Populations in the Lepidoptera 2. Maniola Jurtina L.
Heredity, 3: 67-84, (1949). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
1M
CP233 A Preliminary Linkage Test with Agouti and Undulated Mice.
Heredity, 3: 229-241, (1949). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
643k
CP235 The Linkage Problem in a Tetrasomic Wild Plant, Lythrum Salicaria.
Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Genetics (supplement to Hereditas), 225-233 (1949). Reproduced with permission of Hereditas.
320k
CP237 A Class of Enumerations of Importance in Genetics.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 136: 509-520 (1950). Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
882k
CP238 Gene Frequencies in a Cline Determined by Selection and Diffusion.
Biometrics, 6: 353-361 (1950) Reproduced with permission of the International Biometric Society
421k
CP239 The "Sewall Wright Effect".
Heredity, 4: 117-119 (1950) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
20k
CP241 Creative Aspects of Natural Law.
The Eddington Memorial Lecture (1950). Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press
42k
CP243 Standard Calculations for Evaluating a Blood-Group System.
Heredity, 5: 95-102, (1951). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
391k
CP248 Statistical Methods in Genetics.
Heredity, 6: 1-12, (1952). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
814k
CP252 Population Genetics. The Croonian Lecture, 1953.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 141: 510-523 (1953). Reproduced with permission of the Royal Society.
1.9M
CP253 The Variation in Strength of the Human Blood Group P.
Heredity, 7: 81-89, (1953). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
400k
CP254 The Linkage of Polydactyly with Leaden in the House-Mouse.
Heredity, 7: 91-95 (1953) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
236k
CP258 Retrospect of the Criticisms of the Theory of Natural Selection.
Originally published in Evolution as a Process,(ed. J.S. Huxley, A.C. Hardy and E.B. Ford) p. 84-98. London: Allen &Unwin, 1954.
2M
CP259 A Fuller Theory of "Junctions" in Inbreeding.
Heredity, 8: 187-197, (1954). Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
439k
CP277 Polymorphism and Natural Selection.
Bulletin de l'Institut International de Statistique, 36: 284-289 (1958) Reproduced with permission of the International Statistical Institute
334k
CP278 The Discontinuous Inheritance.
The Listener, 60: 85-87 (1958)
724k
CP279 Natural Selection from the Genetical Standpoint.
Australian Journal of Science, 22: 16-17 (1959)
50k
CP280 An Algebraically Exact Examination of Junction Formation and Transmission in Parent-offspring Inbreeding.
Heredity, 13: 179-186 (1959) Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Science
295k
CP286 Possible Differentiation in the Wild Population of  Oenothera Organesis.
Australian Journal of Biological Sciences, 14: 76-78 (1961). Reproduced with permission of CSIRO Australia.
158k
CP287 A Model for the Generation of Self-Sterility Alleles.
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 1: 411-414 (1961)
245k
CP292 Enumeration and Classification in Polysomic Inheritance.
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2: 309-311 (1962)
127k
CP293 Self-Sterility Alleles: a Reply to Professor D. Lewis.
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 3: 146-147 (1962)
103k
CP294 The Detection of a Sex Difference in Recombination Values Using Double Heterozygotes.
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 3: 509-513 (1962)
302k