Edmund Beecher Wilson, American Geneticist
Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856-1939), circa 1929./nWilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote The Cell, a hightly influential textbook in modern biology, and 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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