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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. ^[1]

He holds that birds are an evolution of dinosaurs.^[2]

Awards

• 2009 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• Geoffrey Edward Hill, Kevin J. McGraw, ed (2006). "Anatomy, Physics, and Evolution of Structural Colors". Bird Coloration: Mechanisms and measurements. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674018938. http://books.google.com/books?id=WnJ8cSoXRMIC&pg=PA295&dq=Richard+Prum&cd=2#v=onepage&q=Richard%20Prum&f=false. 
• "Development and Evolutionary Origin of Feathers", Journal of Experimental Zoology, Vol. 245, No. 4 December 15, 1999
• Alan H. Brush, Richard O. Prum, "Which Came First the Feather or the Bird?", Scientific American, March 2003

References

External links

• "The nature of genius", Yale Daily News, Vivian Yee, Esther Zuckerman, October 9, 2009