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American Zoologist 1987 27(3):785-796; doi:10.1093/icb/27.3.785
© 1987 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Edmund Beecher Wilson, Class of '811

JOHN A. MOORE
Department of Biology, University of California Riverside, California 92521

Edmund Beecher Wilson was born in Geneva, Illinois in 1856. He attended Antioch College, the University of Chicago, Yale, and Johns Hopkins (Ph.D. 1881). Most of his professional life was spent in the Zoology Department of Columbia University together with his close friend, Thomas Hunt Morgan. They were dominant figures in developing the Chromosome Theory of Heredity. Wilson began his professional life as a conventional 19th century biologist studying problems of systematics, morphology, and phylogeny. Soon he became a key figure in the newer experimental disciplines of embryology, cytology, and heredity. He is remembered today largely for his superb synthesis of these three fields in The Cell in Development and Heredity. He died in 1939.


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