George Alfred Baitsell

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Fields Biology Alma mater Yale University Institution Yale University		Institutions Yale University Field Biology

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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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.

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