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Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)

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Francis Galton (1822-1911)

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Karl Pearson(1857-1936)

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Ronald Fisher (1890-1962)

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Sewall Green Wright (1889-1988)

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Charles Roy Henderson (1911-1989)

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Jay Laurence Lush (1896-1982)

Alan Robertson

Reference

  1. Blog: The origin of BLUP and MME
  2. BioRxir paper: the infinitesimal model
  3. Bill Hill’s Benchmark paper list