biography
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Boyd, William (Clouser)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1903– )
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Dearborn, Mississippi, USA. He studied at Harvard, and from 1948 taught at the Boston medical school as professor of immunochemistry. He examined racial groups by systematically classifying blood samples on a worldwide basis. By 1950, in his book Genetics and the Races of Man, he was able to present evidence for the existence of 13 human races, distinguishable by blood type. |
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