Lee Alan Dugatkin
Behavioral Ecologist, Evolutionary Biologist and Historian of Science
Author of How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog
"A story that is part science, part Russian fairy tale, and part spy thriller. . . . Sparkling."
Author of Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others (2022, University of Chicago Press)
"...a scrupulously scientific but highly accessible tour of power’s manifestations...Dugatkin’s depiction of power in the wild yields a stunningly provocative reflection."
Lee Dugatkin
Biography
I'm an evolutionary biologist and a historian of science in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisville. I have lectured about my research and my books at more than 175 venues around the world, including in New Zealand, Australia, Mongolia, Cuba, Russia, Romania, Turkey, The Czech Republic, Croatia, Taiwan, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and many other countries. I'm the author of ten books and more than 200 articles, in such journals as Nature, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and The Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, and I'm a contributing author to Scientific American, The American Scientist, The New Scientist and The Washington Post. The New York Times Book Review called my book, How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog, "Sparkling... A story that is part science, part Russian fairy tale, and part spy thriller… it may serve — particularly now — as a parable of the lessons that can emerge from unfettered science, if we have the courage to let it unfold.”
Books by Dugatkin
Translations underway: Chinese
"...a scrupulously scientific but highly accessible tour of power’s manifestations... Dugatkin’s depiction of power in the wild yields a stunningly provocative reflection."
Wall Street Journal
Translations published or underway into: Russian, German, French, Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Turkish, Italian, Croatian, Farsi, Estonian, Romanian, Mongolian, Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified,
"A story that is part science, part Russian fairy tale, and part spy thriller. . . Sparkling."
(w/Carl Bergstrom, 2nd edition). Revisions for a 3rd edition are currently underway.
4th edition
(A Chinese edition of the 2nd edition is available and a Chinese edition of the 4th edition is underway.)
"Dugatkin’s book is fast-paced, snappy and suspenseful as we follow the moose’s journey."
Financial Times
Translated to German and Spanish. A Farsi edition is underway.
"Exhilarating. . . . [This] is an engaging book with devoted enthusiasm for the ideas of the main protagonist, William Hamilton. . . . Dugatkin's . . . account offers much to think about."
Science
Translated into Greek.
(w/Kern Reeve)
Translated into Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
Translated into Korean and Japanese.
Publications (beside books)
Online Lectures
How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog
Power in the Wild podcast
The Evolution of Goodness
Behind the Crimson Curtain: The Rise and Fall of Peale's Museum
Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose
On C-Span
Smashing Wallace's White Picket Fence
The Deep roots of P
Join My Lab
I am always interested in having talented Ph.D.-to-be students join my lab. Contact me if you are interested.
Current Ph.D. Students
Caroline Driscoll: working on the evolution of empathy in nonhumans.
Emmy Delekta
Former Ph.D. Students
Dr. Matthew Hasenjager, postdoctoral fellow,
Dr. Ryan Earley, Professor, University of Alabama
Dr. Amy Cavanaugh, Professor, Truckee Meadows College
Dr. Trish Adams, research associate, California State University, Monterey
Dr. Michael Alfieri, Professor, Viterbo University
Dr. Scott Lucas
Kropotkin Archive
Coming soon
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