Samuel Wendell Williston
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Samuel Wendell Williston (July 10, 1852 – August 30, 1918) was an American educator, entomologist, and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially (by running), rather than arboreally (by leaping from tree to tree). He was a specialist on the flies, Diptera.
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Samuel Wendell Williston | |
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Born | (1852-07-10)July 10, 1852 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Died | August 30, 1918(1918-08-30) (aged 66) |
Nationality | American |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Kansas State Agricultural College Yale University |
Known for | Allosaurus, Diplodocus, illustrations, terrestrial origin of bird flight |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Paleontology |
Institutions | Yale University University of Kansas University of Chicago |
Doctoral students | Maurice Mehl |
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He is remembered for Williston's law, which states that parts in an organism, such as arthropod limbs, become reduced in number and specialized in function through evolutionary history.