Richard Prum

11 Podcast Episodes

#73 - The Evolution of Beauty: A Dialogue with Richard Prum

#73 - The Evolution of Beauty: A Dialogue with Richard Prum

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Richard Prum about aesthetics, birds, and the evolution of beauty. T... Read more

20 Sep 2021

1hr 53mins

Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way

Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way

Richard Prum really cares about birds. Growing up in rural Vermont, he didn’t know anyone else interested in birding his... Read more

30 Jun 2021

50mins

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Salon No. 9 with Richard Prum

Salon No. 9 with Richard Prum

Richard's book is a major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin term... Read more

11 Mar 2020

37mins

Is Evolutionary Psychology Wrong About Beauty? With Richard Prum

Is Evolutionary Psychology Wrong About Beauty? With Richard Prum

“Beauty can function somewhat like an irrationally exuberant market bubble” - Richard Prum(click to tweet)The evolutiona... Read more

26 Feb 2020

48mins

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33: The Evolution of Beauty | Richard Prum

33: The Evolution of Beauty | Richard Prum

A bold and brilliant refutation of the common wisdom about sexual attraction, aesthetics, and more. Rick Prum is an evol... Read more

16 Jul 2018

1hr 25mins

50: Richard Prum

50: Richard Prum

Deep in tropical jungles around the world are birds with a dizzying array of appearances and mating displays: Club-winge... Read more

25 Jun 2018

1hr 13mins

20. Angela Garbes, Leni Zumas, Richard Prum and Shaun Scott

20. Angela Garbes, Leni Zumas, Richard Prum and Shaun Scott

Angela Garbes shares her experience about being pregnant and talks with Lindy West about the myths and science surroundi... Read more

349: Is Evolutionary Psychology Wrong About Beauty? With Richard Prum

349: Is Evolutionary Psychology Wrong About Beauty? With Richard Prum

The evolutionary view of beauty has traditionally been that humans evolved a sense of what was beautiful based on practi... Read more

18 Oct 2017

48mins

Episode 159 - Richard Prum

Episode 159 - Richard Prum

Cara is joined in studio by Dr. Richard Prum, Yale ornithologist and author of the new book, "The Evolution of Beauty." ... Read more

22 May 2017

1hr 13mins

2 - Dino Birds And The Fitness Of Free Choice | Richard Prum

2 - Dino Birds And The Fitness Of Free Choice | Richard Prum

Tim talks to Richard Prum, William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology at Yale, about dinosaur-to-bird evolution, the... Read more

6 May 2017

57mins

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