# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-prum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:02:40.572Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-prum"
name: "Richard Prum"
slug: "richard-prum"
description: "Richard O. Prum is an evolutionary biologist and ornithologist. He is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, as well as the head curator of vertebrate zoology at the university's Peabody Museum of Natural History. His 2017 book The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2017 by The New York Times and was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction."
tagline: "American ornithologist, evolutionary biologist (born 1961)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.279590666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump