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Since the highlights of our professional life are what makes it interesting and rewarding, I have decided to describe in this account the events surrounding the derivation of the so-called “Ewens sampling formula” of population genetics, which has formed a high point in my career as an applied probabilist. Before doing this I will briefly describe my background and early training in population genetics theory.
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Ewens, W.J. (1986). The Path to the Genetics Sampling Formula. In: Gani, J. (eds) The Craft of Probabilistic Modelling. Applied Probability, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8631-5_18
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