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George Alfred Baitsell

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Fields
  
Biology

Alma mater
  
Yale University

Institution
  
Yale University

Institutions
  
Yale University

Field
  
Biology

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Education
  
B.S. Central University of Iowa 1908, M.A. Yale University 1909

Thesis
  
Experiments on the reproduction of the Hypotrichous Infusoria (1914)

Spouse
  
Dorothy Morton Horning (1885-1967)

Children
  
John Morton, a daughter of unknown name

Died
  
24 September 1971, Winter Park, Florida, United States

Books
  
EVOLUTION OF MAN A SERIES OF L, Human Biology

George Alfred Baitsell (1885 – September 24, 1971) was an American biologist. He was Professor of biology at the Yale University. He was an official of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and published several science books.

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Publications

  • The evolution of man, New Haven, Yale university press, 1922
  • Manual of animal biology, New York, Macmillan, 1932
  • Science in progress, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1949 (editor)
  • The Centennial of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University Press, 1950 (editor)
  • Family

    George Alfred Baitsell was the first son of John Albert Baitsell (1847-1929) and Amanda Clammer (1859-1936); he had a sister, Bessie (died in 1887 three weeks after her birth), and two brothers, John Merrill (1889-1905), and Carl Merrill (born 1891). He and his wife Dorothy Morton Horning (1885-1967) had a son, John Morton, and a daughter.

    References

    George Alfred Baitsell Wikipedia