During his long and productive life, Sewall Wright achieved international standing in the disciplines of experimental physiological genetics, the study of heredity, as well as quantitative evolutionary biology. Wright made significant contributions to...

1889-1988 American Geneticist As author of the "shifting-balance" theory—concerned with how certain gene combinations spread throughout a population—Sewall Wright transformed scientific views concerning evolution. Much of...

Sewall Green Wright (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. With R. A. Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane, he was a founder of theoretical...