R.A. Fisher
Natural selection, heredity, and eugenics

Including selected correspondence of R.A. Fisher with Leonard Darwin and others
Edited by J.H. Bennett

This volume was published in 1983 by Oxford University Press, and by whom permission to reproduce it digitally on this website was very kindly granted. Unfortunately it is now out of print, but details on how to purchase the two additional volumes below can be accessed by clicking on the links :-

The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection - A Complete Variorum Edition

Statistical Methods, Experimental Design and Scientific Inference

In addition to this work, the volume Statistical Inference and Analysis :
Selected correspondence, edited by J.H. Bennett (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990) has also been digitised, and can be found here.

You may also be interested in visiting our pages devoted to Fisher's Collected Papers, and the contents listing of the papers of R.A. Fisher held by Special Collections.

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File name Chapter Title Page Numbers File size
tp_intro.pdf Preface, Introduction Title page-p. 50 2 Mb
chap2.pdf R.A. Fisher on (1) Mendelism and Biometry (1911) and (2) Social Selection (1912) 51-63 468 kb
chap3.pdf Darwin-Fisher Correspondence 1915-1929 64-120 2 Mb
chap4.pdf Darwin-Fisher Correspondence 1930-1942 121-177 2.2 Mb
ch5-Ford.pdf Fisher's Other Correspondence on Natural Selection and Heredity 178-203 923 kb
ch5-Kimu.pdf  Fisher's Other Correspondence on Natural Selection and Heredity (cont.)  (A.B.D. Fortuyn-M. Kimura) 204-230 1 Mb
ch5-Richa.pdf  Fisher's Other Correspondence on Natural Selection and Heredity (cont.)  (R.S. Koshal-C Tate Regan) 231-258 1.1 Mb
ch5-end.pdf Fisher's Other Correspondence on Natural Selection and Heredity (cont.)  (O.W. Richards-E. Wynter) 259-286 1.2 Mb
appenda.pdf Appendix A : A Review of 'Evolution in Mendelian Populations' (S. Wright, 1931) 287-288 83 kb
appendb.pdf Appendix B : A Review of The Causes of Evolution (J.B.S. Haldane, 1932) 289-291 123 kb
appendc.pdf Appendix C : A Review of The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882 (Ed. Nora Barlow, 1958) 292-293 58 kb
appendd.pdf Appendix D : 'The Centenary of Darwinism' by R.A.Fisher (1959) 294-297 157 kb
refs.pdf List of References to Collected Papers of R.A. Fisher 298-300 79 kb
name.pdf Name index 301-303 74 kb
subject.pdf Subject index 304-306 79 kb