Lee Dugatkin

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Lee Dugatkin
Born
Lee Alan Dugatkin

(1962-07-08)July 8, 1962
New York City
Scientific career
Institutions University of Louisville
Thesis Game theory and the evolution of cooperation: models and tests  (1991)
Doctoral advisor David Sloan Wilson

Lee Alan Dugatkin is an evolutionary biologist, animal behaviorist and historian of science at the University of Louisville. His research includes work on the evolution of cooperation, the evolution of altruism, the evolution of aggression, the evolution of culture, the process of domestication, the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the evolution of monozygotic twinning, social networks in nonhumans, and the role of natural history in 18th and 19th century America and Europe. Dugatkin's work has been cited in the literature more than 16,000 times. [1]

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Education

Dugatkin graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1980: his classmates that year included physicists Brian Greene and Lisa Randall and cultural historian M.G. Sheftall. He earned his B.A. from Binghamton University in 1984, his M.S. from SUNY Albany, working with Jerram Brown in 1987, and his Ph.D. at Binghamton University under the supervision of David Sloan Wilson in 1991.

Books

Dugatkin is the author of Principles of Animal Behavior, currently in its fifth edition. [2] Together with Carl Bergstrom he is author of Evolution (WW Norton, 2023), a textbook now in its third edition. [3]

Dugatkin co-authored How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog (University of Chicago Press, 2017) with Russian geneticist Lyudmila Trut. How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog discusses Dmitry Belyayev and Lyudmila Trut's work on domesticating the silver fox. The New York Times Book Review called it "part science, part Russian fairy tale, and part spy thriller". [4] Forbes Magazine told readers "If you read only two biology books this year, [How to Tame a Fox] is one of those two that you simply must read." [5]

Online lectures, talks and presentations

Collaborations

Since the late 1980s, Dugatkin has collaborated on journal articles and books with: David Sloan Wilson, Carl Bergstrom, Lyudmila Trut, Marc Bekoff, Alasdair Houston, Andrew Sih, Rufus Johnstone, Jacob Hoglund, Anne Barrett Clark, Phil Crowley, Kern Reeve, Ivan Chase, Sheng-Feng Shen, Scott Gleeson, Ryan Earley, Ronald Atlas, Mike Perlin, Michael Mesterton-Gibbons, Matthew Hasenjager, Jean-Guy Godin and Michael Alfieri.

Selected publications

References

  1. "Lee Dugatkin". scholar.google.com.
  2. Dugatkin, Lee Alan. "Principles of Animal Behavior, 5th Edition". University of Chicago Press via University of Chicago Press.
  3. "Evolution". wwnorton.com.
  4. Zuk, Marlene (5 May 2017). "How Do You Make a Fox Your Friend? Fast-Forward Evolution". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
  5. scientist, Grrl (31 December 2017). "The 10 Best Biology Books Of 2017". Forbes Magazine. Retrieved 31 October 2025.