| Citation | Professor Anthony Edwards, Former Professor of Biometry, University of Cambridge
Anthony Edwards has made fundamental contributions to statistical and population genetics, and to statistical theory. His outstanding contribution to the former is the development (with Cavalli-Sforza) of methods for constructing evolutionary trees that are the basis of all subsequent phylogenetic analyses. He has also made an insightful analysis of Fisher's Fundamental theorem and pioneered models of natural selection and the sex ratio and the genetic analysis of sex ratio variation. His book on likelihood has made a major contribution to the theory of statistics that bridges Fisherian and Bayesian approaches. His development of Venn diagrams and of novel approaches to the sums of power of integers are further examples of his distinctive original analytical ability.
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