Just found this web site that has a good bibliography of R.A. Fisher's work. Good supplement to the R.A. Fisher digital archive. Why do I obsess with Fisher? First, ANOVA is ubiquitous. Second, stories like this would shock & awe a lot less if people read The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance (PDF of full paper). Now, the text of the paper can be rather opaque, and the dancing flow of algebraic manipulations and moments magic can elude your grasp, but the gist is simple:
the variance components of the offspring of heterozygous parents can be predicted a priori from Mendelian assumptions
. And, this variation is not exhausted through admixture because of the discrete character of Mendelian genetics. Update: I've been told that "the variance components of the offspring of heterozygous parents can be predicted a priori from Mendelian assumptions" is well nigh unintelligible. OK, ...
