Wilhelmine Marie Entemann Key (1872-1955), US geneticist. Key was the author of 'Heredity and Social Fitness' (1920). She studied at the University of

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Wilhelmine Marie Entemann Key (1872-1955), US geneticist. Key was the author of 'Heredity and Social Fitness' (1920). She studied at the University of Wisconsin under E. A. Birge, and obtained her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1901. Later in her career, she taught at Lombard Collage where one of her most famous students was Sewall Wright. Key went on to work for several eugenics organisations, and carried out independent research.

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