Edmund Beecher Wilson

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Edmund Beecher Wilson (October 19, 1856 – March 3, 1939) was an American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most influential textbooks in modern biology, The Cell in Development and Inheritance. He discovered the chromosomal XY sex-determination system in 1905.

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