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=== William Boyd (1903–1983) ===
[[William C. Boyd|William Boyd]] was an American [[Immunochemistry|immunochemist]] and [[biochemist]] who became famous for his research on the genetics of race in the 1950s.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FE6NDQAAQBAJ&q=william+clouser+boyd&pg=PA60|title=Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center|last=Monk|first=Ray|date=2014|publisher=Anchor Books|isbn=978-0385722049|language=en}}</ref> During the 1940s, Boyd and Karl O. Renkonen independently discovered that [[lectin]]s react differently to various blood types, after finding that the crude extracts of the [[Phaseolus lunatus|lima bean]] and [[Vicia cracca|tufted vetch]] agglutinated the [[red blood cell]]s from blood type A but not blood types B or O. This ultimately led to the disclosure of thousands of plants that contained these proteins.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Espino-Solis|first=Gerardo Pavel|date=April 2015|title=Lectins: A brief review|journal=Vitae|volume=22|issue=1|pages=9–11|doi=10.17533/udea.vitae.v22n1a01 |doi-access=free }}</ref> In order to examine racial differences and the distribution and migration patterns of various racial groups, Boyd systematically collected and classified blood samples from around the world, leading to his discovery that [[blood groups]] are not influenced by the environment, and are inherited. In his book ''Genetics and the Races of Man'' (1950), Boyd categorized the world population into 13 distinct races, based on their different blood type profiles and his idea that human races are populations with differing [[allele]]s.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Star Lord|last=Boyd|first=William Clouser|date=2016|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform|isbn=978-1536885545|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=b08ef2b3-8588-4fba-a58b-5b733b5486a9%40sessionmgr4007&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=203014321&db=brb|title=Chambers Biographical Dictionary (Bio Ref Bank)|last=Parry|first=Melanie|date=1997|publisher=Chambers Harrap}}{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> One of the most abundant information sources regarding inheritable traits linked to race remains the study of blood groups.<ref name=":7" />