"Merino sheep always flock while Highland sheep spread. The reason is that in Spain the summer feeding and winter feeding of the sheep were widely separated, and the shepherd had to march them many miles along the road and through the villages. If they did not flock, they would soon be lost in their seasonal journey. On the other hand, the Scottish shepherd never moves his Highland sheep large distances and wishes them to spread out as much as possible over the hills so that no one area is overgrazed, and both of these characteristics have been achieved by selective breeding."
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John Tyler Bonner
John Tyler Bonner (May 12, 1920 – February 7, 2019) was an American biologist and professor at Princeton University. He was a leading expert on cellular slime molds and their evolution and development with implications for other organisms.
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