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Edmund Beecher Wilson

American zoologist, geneticist (1856–1939)

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Lived 1856–1939, aged 83United States

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Aged 83
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Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most influential textbooks in modern biology, The Cell. He discovered the chromosomal XY sex-determination system in 1905. Nettie Stevens independently made the same discovery the same year and published shortly thereafter.

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