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The Relation of Livestock Breeding to Theories of Evolution¹

University of Wisconsin², Madison 53706

Abstract

The debt owed by quantitative geneticists to today's guest speaker is immeasurable. We quantitative geneticists are much concerned with the covariances among relatives, so I thought this introduction should include information on near relatives as well as individual performance data. For pedigree evaluation purposes, I thought it necessary to tell you a bit about Dr. Wright's father. Philip Green Wright was born in 1861, and took a Master's Degree at Harvard in Economics. Most of his academic career was spent at Lombard College in Gales-burg, IL. There he taught Economics, Mathematics, Astronomy and English, and was Director of the Gymnasium. He was a minor poet and would probably have to be judged unsuccessful in this endeavor, except that one of his student's, Carl Sandburg, enjoyed a bit of success. Another important relationship is that of full-sibs. Dr. Wright's two brothers were successful and able men. Quincy was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

¹ Invited paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Animal Science, Madison, WI, July 25, 1977.

² Department of Genetics.

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