Richard Prum
Encyclopedia
Richard O. Prum is William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology
, and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, at Yale University
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He describes himself as "an evolutionary ornithologist with broad interests in diverse topics, including phylogenetics, behavior, feathers, structural color, evolution and development, sexual selection, and historical biogeography".
He holds that birds are the living descendants of theropod dinosaurs, a previously highly disputed finding that has increasingly gained broader acceptance in the ornithological and evolutionary biology scientific communities.
Ornithology
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds...
, and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
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He describes himself as "an evolutionary ornithologist with broad interests in diverse topics, including phylogenetics, behavior, feathers, structural color, evolution and development, sexual selection, and historical biogeography".
He holds that birds are the living descendants of theropod dinosaurs, a previously highly disputed finding that has increasingly gained broader acceptance in the ornithological and evolutionary biology scientific communities.