# Samuel Wendell Williston

> Samuel Wendell Williston was an American educator, entomologist, and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially, rather than arboreally. He was a specialist on the flies, Diptera.

*American paleontologist (1851–1918)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1851-07-10
- **Died:** 1918-08-30
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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