Richard O. Prum

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Richard Owen Prum (born August 27, 1961 in New Rochelle , New York ), often Richard O. Prum or Richard Prum , is an American ornithologist and university professor .

Life

Prum grew up in rural Vermont . In 1982 he earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University . In 1989 he was with the dissertation Phylogenetic analysis of the morphological and behavioral evolution of the Neotropical manakins (Aves Pipridae) under the direction of Mary C. McKitrick and Robert B. Payne for Ph.D. PhD in Life Sciences from the University of Michigan . From 1989 to 1991 he conducted research with a Chapman - postdoctoral scholarship at the ornithological department of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City . From 1991 to 1997 he was assistant professor, from 1997 to 2003 adjunct professor and in 2003 full professor of ecologist and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas . From 1991 to 2003 he was also a curator of ornithology at the Kansas University Natural History Museum .

Since 2004 he has been Professor of Ornithology at the William Robertson Coe Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of PhD programs at Yale University, and Curator of Ornithology and Chief Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History . From 2008 to 2011, he was chairman of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. Since 2012 he has been director of the Franke program in the natural sciences and humanities .

Prum is an evolutionary orithologist who studies behavioral evolution, feather evolution, sexual selection, and avian evolution. He has conducted field studies in the Neotropical countries and Madagascar , and studied fossil theropoda in China .

In 2001, the species Prum Snowornis for Schwarzkronenkotinga ( Snowornis subalaris ) and the Schwarzscheitelkotinga ( Snowornis cryptolophus ) from the family of Manakin a (Cotingidae). Both species previously belonged to the genera Lipaugus and Lathria .

In 2017 Prum's book The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us was published , in which he describes the importance of aesthetic partner choice , which he regards as an important independent factor in evolution. The Evolution of Beauty was named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in the non-fiction category in 2018 . In 2019 Prum contributed to the fourth edition of Frank Gill 's Ornithology .

Awards

In 2001 Prum received a Fulbright Scholarship for the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in São Paulo , Brazil . He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009, and a 2011 research fellowship from the Ikerbasque - Basque Foundation for Science .

literature

  • Richard O. Prum. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2018. Biography In Context, accessed February 1, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2008, p. 126
  2. ^ Richard O. Prum: A new genus for the Andean green pihas. Ibis 143 (2), 2001, pp. 307-309
  3. ↑ The 10 Best Books of 2017 . The New York Times on November 30, 2017, accessed February 1, 2019
  4. ↑ Ferris Jabr: How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution The extravagant splendor of the animal kingdom can't be explained by natural selection alone - so how did it come to be? The New York Times Magazine on January 9, 2019, accessed February 1, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Prum, Richard O.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prum, Richard Owen (full name); Prum, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH New Rochelle , New York