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Edmund Beecher Wilson

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Gender Male
Death84 years ago
Date of birth October 19,1856
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Geneva
Illinois
United States
Date of died March 3,1939
DiedNew York City
New York
United States
Known forXY sex-determination system
Job Geneticist
Science writer
Education Yale University
Antioch College
Johns Hopkins University
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Edmund Beecher Wilson Life story


Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most famous textbooks in the history of modern biology, The Cell. He and Nettie Maria Stevens were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basis of sex, but they conducted their research independently of each other.

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