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Edmund Beecher Wilson

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American zoologist, geneticist

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Edmund Beecher Wilson
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Zoology
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According to Wikipedia, 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—that human males have XY and females XX sex chromosomes. Nettie Stevens independently made the same discovery the same year and published shortly thereafter.

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