James Franklin Crow. 18 January 1916 — 4 January 2012

James Franklin Crow (1916–2012)

years, like Lake Vostok, underneath the eponymous Russian research station at 77 degrees South. One of the largest lakes on our planet, Lake Vostok is comparable in volume to Lake Ontario. Back in 1998, a research team drilled around three kilometres deep into the ice shield stopping only a few hundred metres above the lake surface. The lower parts of the ice core, believed to consist of frozen...

Dr. Nasser Maleki (January 25, 1953 – January 6, 2012)

James F. Crow (1916–2012) A Remarkable Geneticist, a Remarkable Man

JAMES F. Crow, professor emeritus of genetics, died peacefully in his sleep of congestive heart failure in Madison, Wisconsin, on January 4, 2012, 2 weeks before his 96th birthday. A leading figure in 20th century genetics whose career spanned 72 years, Crow was renowned as teacher, mentor, colleague, research scientist, textbook author, academic administrator, scientific leader, genetics histo...

10 January 2012

In the early 1960s, Anthony Edwards and Luca Cavalli-Sforza made an effort to apply R.A. Fisher’s maximum likelihood (ML) method to estimate genealogical trees of human populations using gene frequency data. They used the Yule branching process to describe the probabilities of the trees and branching times and the Brownian motion process to model the drift of gene frequencies (after a suitable ...

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