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mediating continuous variation, and showed (contrary to accepted theory) that the genes at different loci affected the quantitative character in qualitatively different ways. He has pioneered experiments into
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and the role of genetic variation in determining long term fitness. He has pioneered a method for the location on
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His research from 1947 has been largely concerned with the causes and functions of intraspecific
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This article about a biologist from the United Kingdom is a
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John Marion Thoday
Jon Thoday

FRS
British
geneticist
botanists
David Thoday
Mary Gladys Thoday
Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics
Cambridge University
Fellow of the Royal Society
Chinley
Derbyshire
Bootham School
York
University College of North Wales
Bangor
Trinity College, Cambridge
World War II
RAF
genetic variation
evolution
chromosomes
genes
disruptive selection
polymorphisms
speciation
"John Marion Thoday. 30 August 1916—25 August 2008"
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