Richard Prum
Richard O. Prum is an evolutionary ornithologist with broad interests in avian biology. He is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology at Yale University, and the Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. His latest book is The Evolution of Beauty.
Feathery dinosaurs are the perfect case study of how scientific revolutions happen.
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Is beauty always a proxy for genetic health and fitness? Charles Darwin didn't think so.
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How did human homosexuality evolve?
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The beautiful courtship rituals of the Club-winged Manakin leave both the male and the female worse off physically, says evolutionary ornithologist Richard O. Prum.
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What role does beauty play in evolution? How does Darwin's idea of natural selection apply to how we choose mates? Richard O. Prum, professor of Ornithology at Yale University, explains.
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Evolution proves that sexual predators are jerks.
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