Academic Ancestry

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Walter Sutton

American geneticist1877 to 1916

Wikidata names Edmund Beecher Wilson as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 2 other registers.

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Walter Sutton, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Education and career2

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