Ronald Fisher and eugeneics: Statistics, evolution and genetics in the quest for permanent civilization

Ronald A. Fisher (1890-1962) is one of the most prestigious scientists in the history of statistics and genetics. And it could not be different. He contributed to several areas of knowledge, including mathematical formulations. He is also considered one of the main architects of the neoDarwinian synthesis an intellectual movement that was able to reunite two rival currents scientists, to wit, the Mendelian saltationists and the gradualist Darwinists, within one same theoretical-conceptual scope. At the beginning of the twentieth century, this conflict between the two currents seemed unsolvable.