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Books by Richard O. Prum

Richard O. Prum’s contributions to ornithology are outstanding. He is the head curator of Vertebrate Zoology at Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History and William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology at Yale University. His book “The Evolution of Beauty” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and The New York Times declared it to be one of the ten best books of 2017.

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The Evolution of Beauty

Richard O. Prum

In “The Evolution of Beauty,” Richard O. Prum explains that, through hours of field observation of birds, he discovered that mating is a complicated process. In this process, only the most successful male will have the opportunity to charm and mate with one or multiple females. His views on sexual selection are observable in the mating process of animals, birds, as well as humans.

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