Lee Alan Dugatkin is an animal behaviorist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisville. He is the author of more than one hundred and fifty papers and the author or coauthor of many books, including The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness.
The video below is background for the book How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) and features excerpts from a Soviet-era film made for the 1977 International Congress of Genetics, held in Moscow, about experiments in domesticating the silver fox.
Books in order of publication
The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness – 2007
Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early America – 2009
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution – 2016
Principles of Animal Behavior – 2020
Power in the Wild – 2022
The Well Connected Animal – 2024
Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery – 2024
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