Editing Ronald Fisher (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File:Ronald Fisher as a child.JPG|thumb|upright|As a child]]
[[File:Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher - Inverforth House North End Way NW3.jpg|thumb|[[Inverforth House]], [[North End Way]] NW3, where Fisher lived from 1896 to 1904. He is commemorated with a [[blue plaque]].]]

Fisher was born in [[East Finchley]] in [[London, England]], into a middle-class household; his father, George, was a successful partner in Robinson & Fisher, auctioneers and fine art dealers.<ref name="Heritage">[https://web.archive.org/web/20240504034713/https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/lifestyle/21380550.heritage-hampstead-years-sir-ronald-aylmer-fisher---significant-british-statistician-20th-century/ Heritage: The Hampstead years of Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher – most significant British statistician of the 20th century] hamhigh.co.uk</ref> He was one of twins, with the other twin being still-born<ref>[https://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fisher.html Fisher biography] history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk</ref> and grew up the youngest, with three sisters and one brother.<ref>Box, ''R. A. Fisher'', pp. 8–16</ref> From 1896 until 1904 they lived at [[Inverforth House]] in London, where [[English Heritage]] installed a [[blue plaque]] in 2002, before moving to [[Streatham]].<ref name="BluePlaque">{{cite web|last=Aldrich|first=John|title=A Blue Plaque for Ronald Fisher's Childhood Home|url=https://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/fisherguide/blueplaque.htm| work=Economics, Soton University| publisher=Soton.ac.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628012356/http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/fisherguide/blueplaque.htm |access-date=24 April 2023|archive-date=28 June 2021 }}</ref> His mother, Kate, died from acute [[peritonitis]] when he was 14, and his father lost his business 18 months later.<ref name ="Heritage"/>

Lifelong poor eyesight caused his rejection by the [[British Army]] for [[World War I]],<ref name="Wiley">{{Cite encyclopedia|last1=Box |first1=Joan Fisher |last2=Edwards |first2=A. W. F. |title=Fisher, Ronald Aylmer | author2-link= A. W. F. Edwards | encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of Biostatistics |year=2005 | publisher= [[John Wiley & Sons]] |doi=10.1002/0470011815.b2a17045|isbn=978-0470849071 }}.</ref> but also developed his ability to visualize problems in [[geometry|geometrical]] terms, not in writing mathematical solutions, or proofs. He entered [[Harrow School]] age 14 and won the school's Neeld Medal in mathematics. In 1909, he won a scholarship to study [[Mathematics]] at [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]]. In 1912, he gained a First in [[Mathematics]].<ref>The Historical Register of the University of Cambridge, Supplement, 1911–1920</ref> 
In 1915 he published a paper, ''The evolution of sexual preference'',<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Fisher | first1=R. A. | year=1915 | title=The evolution of sexual preference | journal=Eugenics Review | volume=7 | issue=3| pages=184–192 |pmc=2987134 | pmid=21259607}}</ref> on [[sexual selection]] and [[mate choice]].