Robert R. Sokal

Robert Sokal (born January 13, 1926, in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-American biostatistician and anthropologist. Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of Stony Brook, New York, Sokal is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has pioneered the use of statistics in biology and co-founded the field of numerical taxonomy, together with P. H. A. Sneath.

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Sokal R.R. (1988) "Genetic, geographic, and linguistic distances in Europe." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 85:1722-1726.
Barbujani G. and Sokal R.R. (1990) "Zones of sharp genetic change in Europe are also linguistic boundaries." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 87:1816-1819.
Sokal RR, Oden NL, Wilson C. (1991) "Genetic evidence for the spread of agriculture in Europe by demic diffusion." Nature 351:143-145.
Chen J, Sokal RR, Ruhlen M. (1995) "Worldwide analysis of genetic and linguistic relationships of human populations." Human Biology 67:595-612.
Barbujani G, Sokal RR, Oden NL. (1995) "Indo-European origins: a computer-simulation test of five hypotheses." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 96:109-132.
Sokal R.R., Oden N.L., Rosenberg M.S., Thomson B.A.(2000) "Cancer incidences in Europe related to mortalities, and ethnohistoric, genetic, and geographic distances." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 97:6067-6072.

Sneath P.H.E. and Sokal R.R. (1963) Principles of Numerical Taxonomy. Freeman & Co., San Francisco
Sokal R.R. and Rohlf P.J. (1987) Introduction to Biostatistics. Freeman & Co., San Francisco
Sokal R.R. and Rohlf P.J. (1994) Biometry. 3rd ed. Freeman & Co., San Francisco

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