Academic Ancestry

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William Keith Brooks

American zoologist1848 to 1908

Wikidata lists 2 doctoral students and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Students on Wikidata2

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Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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    Thomas Hunt Morgan

    born 1866

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    Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 8 people: 8 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career4

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