George R. Price
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American population geneticist
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George R. Price's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics University of Chicago
Why Is George R. Price Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Robert Price was an American population geneticist. Price is often noted for his formulation of the Price equation in 1967. Originally a physical chemist and later a science journalist, he moved to London in 1967, where he worked in theoretical biology at the Galton Laboratory, making three important contributions: first, rederiving W.D. Hamilton's work on kin selection with the new Price equation that vindicated group selection; second, introducing the concept of the evolutionarily stable strategy , a central concept in game theory; and third, formalizing Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection.
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