Samuel Wendell Williston was an American educator and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially(by running), rather than arboreally(by leaping from tree to tree). Williston was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Samuel Williston and Jane A. Williston née Turner. As a young child, Williston's family travelled to Kansas Territory in 1857 under the auspices of the New England Emigrant Aid Company to help fight the extension of slavery. Wikipedia
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