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The rat stories that foretold a nightmarish human future Guest: Dr. Lee Dugatkin, Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisville and Author of “Dr. Calhoun's Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

-The rat stories that foretold a nightmarish human future Guest: Dr. Lee Dugatkin, Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisville and Author of “Dr. Calhoun's Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity” -Scott's Thoughts: The Halloween Candy debate Guest: Scott Shantz, Contributor for Mornings with Simi -View From Victoria: A look at the upcoming radio debate on CKNW We get a local look at the top political stories with the help of Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer -How will NASA's Coordinated Lunar Time work? Guest: Michelle Hanlon, Professor of Practice and the Executive Director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law -Mixing sadness and humor to make art Guest: Donovan Woods, Canadian Singer Songwriter -Why does Poilievre keep tabling non-confidence motions? Guest: Hamish Telford, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of the Fraser Valley -Battling to be the MLA for Chilliwack-Cultus Lake? Guest: Kelli Paddon, NDP Candidate for Chilliwack-Cultus Lake Guest: Á'a:líya Warbus, Conservative Candidate for Chilliwack-Cultus Lake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Jonathan Losos is a Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is one of the leading figures in the field of evolutionary biology. He has specifically studied anole lizards, the adaptations to various islands, and has made groundbreaking findings in the area of convergent radiation. We mention David Resnick, Lee Dugatkin, Stephen J Gould, Charles Darwin, Simon Conway Morris, and many more. His book "Improbably Destinies" : https://www.amazon.com/Improbable-Destinies-Chance-Future-Evolution/dp/0399184929 His book "The cat's meow" : https://www.amazon.com/Cats-Meow-Evolved-Savanna-Your/dp/1984878700

W drugiej części podcastu o lisach Bielajewa docieramy do momentu, kiedy w lisim świecie Dmitrija Bielajewa zaczęło się źle dziać. Połowa lat 80-ch przyniosła nie tylko zmiany polityczne w ZSRR, ale też śmierć naukowca oraz pierwszy poważny kryzys gospodarczy w kraju. Ludmiła Trut, próbująca za wszelką cenę ratować setki "udomowionych" lisów, pozostaje na farmie wraz z kilkoma oddanymi sprawie pracownikami. Reszta naukowców i zwykłych pracowników ośrodka badawczego pod Nowosybirskiem próbuje ratować swoje rodziny. Ludmile udaje się wtedy uratować nie tylko swoich podopiecznych, ale też nie stracić wyników trwającego od kilkudziesięciu lat eksperymentu. Kolejnym ciosem był koniec lat 90-ch... Wtedy z ratunkiem przyszli zwykli ludzie, mieszkających w różnych zakątkach świata, którym los lisów Bielajewa nie był obojętny. Gdy czytałam o tych trudnych, tragicznych doświadczeniach, nie mogłam nie pomyśleć o tych, którzy dziś znajdują się w jeszcze gorszej sytuacji, niż Ludmiła Trut zimą 1998 roku. I tym razem to my mamy szansę komuś pomóc - być może sprawić, że pojawi się chociaż promyk nadziei. Mam na myśli Marynę, która dziś walczy o życie psów w schronisku w Dnieprze: https://www.facebook.com/shelterFriendDneprWesprzeć Marynę i pomóc jej ratować psy w Ukrainie można poprzez udział w licytacji przedmiotów na bazarku pod linkiem: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2061831827433938/Zbiórkę na ratowanie psów w Ukrainie można też wesprzeć poprzez:https://zrzutka.pl/6787xnMoże to będzie najlepsze rozpoczęcie Nowego 2024 roku?Oczywiście, w podcaście opowiem Wam również o badaniach, które udało się kontynuować, gdy część populacji lisów Bielajewa udało się uratować. Będzie o serotoninie, hormonach stresu, lisim śmiechu, a także o tym, że śmiałe tezy Bielajewa o procesie udomowienia zwierząt, postawione w połowie lat 50-ch XX wieku, zostały potwierdzone przez badania współczesnych naukowców. O tym właśnie będzie dzisiejszy podcast - serdecznie Was zapraszam do posłuchania. Książki, z których korzystałam: Lee Dugatkin, Ludmila Trut "How to Tame a Fox (and build d Dog)"; Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods "Przetrwają najżyczliwsi. Jak ewolucja wyjaśnia istotę człowieczeństwa".

Wyobraźmy sobie taki eksperyment - przygarniamy młodego wilczka z rodziny dzikich wilków i karmimy go karmą dla psów. Czy wyrośnie na psa? Raczej nie. A Trofim Łysenko - pseudonaukowiec z czasów Związku Radzieckiego wierzył, że tak. Że liczą się nie geny, a środowisko. Wychowanie. Niestety, przez kilkadziesiąt lat to właśnie jego ekscentryczne podejście do biologii wiodło prym w ZSRR. Tymczasem prawdziwi naukowcy, w tym wybitny genetyk Dmitrij Bielajew, musieli w ukryciu prowadzić swoje badania. W tym odcinku opowiem Wam historię niezwykłego, trwającego ponad 60 lat eksperymentu, który dotyczy procesu udomowienia zwierząt. O lisach Bielajewa głośno było od lat 70-ch na całym świecie. To właśnie Dmitrij Bielajew postanowił udomowić dzikie lisy srebrne, dobierając do dalszej hodowli osobniki mniej agresywne. Jak się okazało, selekcja pod względem tej jednej cechy - agresywności - doprowadziło do daleko idących zmian nie tylko w zachowaniu zwierząt, lecz także w ich wyglądzie. W kolejnych pokoleniach lisy Bielajewa zaczęły coraz bardziej przypominać psy. Ich futro zaczęly zdobić białe planki, pyszczki się zkróciły, a czaszki się zaokrągliły. Ogony zaczęły się zawijać w precelki, skróciły się łapy i zęby. Lisy zaczęły szczekać niczym psy i zaczynały bronić swoich ludzi przed intruzami. W ciągu kilkudziesięciu lat wyhodowano całą linię niezwykłych zwierząt, odtwarzając tym samym proces udomowienia, jaki mógł mieć miejsce 14 albo i 40 tysięcy lat temu, kiedy z wilka narodził się pies. W dzisiejszym odcinku opowiem Wam zaledwie część tej niezwykłej historii. Przy okazji powspominam sobie moje doświadczenie z lisami, w tym historię Milki - łaciatej piękności z Syberii, z farmy Bielajewa. Serdecznie Was zapraszam do posłuchania.Książki, z których korzystałam: Lee Dugatkin, Ludmila Trut "How to Tame a Fox (and build d Dog)"; Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods "Przetrwają najżyczliwsi. Jak ewolucja wyjaśnia istotę człowieczeństwa".

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao This show is sponsored by Enlites, Learning & Development done differently. Check the website here: http://enlites.com/ Dr. Lee Dugatkin is a Professor of Biology and Distinguished Arts and Sciences Scholar in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisville. He is a behavioral ecologist and historian of science and his main area of research interest is the evolution of social behavior. He is the author of numerous books, including, Behind the Crimson Curtain: The Rise and Fall of Peale's Museum, How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog, and textbooks like Principles of Animal Behavior, and Evolution. His latest book is Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others. In this episode, we focus on Power in the Wild. We talk about dominance, and the relationship between dominance and cooperation. We discuss the costs of power. We talk about how animals assess potential opponents, and bystander effects and audience effects in challenges. We discuss how high-ranking individuals can promote prosociality within the group. We talk about power struggles between individuals of opposites sexes. Finally, we discuss group power. -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS/SUPPORTERS: PER HELGE LARSEN, JERRY MULLER, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BERNARDO SEIXAS, OLAF ALEX, ADAM KESSEL, MATTHEW WHITINGBIRD, ARNAUD WOLFF, TIM HOLLOSY, HENRIK AHLENIUS, JOHN CONNORS, FILIP FORS CONNOLLY, DAN DEMETRIOU, ROBERT WINDHAGER, RUI INACIO, ZOOP, MARCO NEVES, COLIN HOLBROOK, SIMON COLUMBUS, PHIL KAVANAGH, MIKKEL STORMYR, SAMUEL ANDREEFF, FRANCIS FORDE, TIAGO NUNES, ALEXANDER DANNBAUER, FERGAL CUSSEN, HAL HERZOG, NUNO MACHADO, JONATHAN LEIBRANT, JOÃO LINHARES, STANTON T, SAMUEL CORREA, ERIK HAINES, MARK SMITH, JOÃO EIRA, TOM HUMMEL, SARDUS FRANCE, DAVID SLOAN WILSON, YACILA DEZA-ARAUJO, ROMAIN ROCH, DIEGO LONDOÑO CORREA, YANICK PUNTER, ADANER USMANI, CHARLOTTE BLEASE, NICOLE BARBARO, ADAM HUNT, PAWEL OSTASZEWSKI, NELLEKE BAK, GUY MADISON, GARY G HELLMANN, SAIMA AFZAL, ADRIAN JAEGGI, NICK GOLDEN, PAULO TOLENTINO, JOÃO BARBOSA, JULIAN PRICE, EDWARD HALL, HEDIN BRØNNER, DOUGLAS FRY, FRANCA BORTOLOTTI, GABRIEL PONS CORTÈS, URSULA LITZCKE, SCOTT, ZACHARY FISH, TIM DUFFY, SUNNY SMITH, JON WISMAN, MORTEN EIKELAND, DANIEL FRIEDMAN, WILLIAM BUCKNER, PAUL-GEORGE ARNAUD, LUKE GLOWACKI, GEORGIOS THEOPHANOUS, CHRIS WILLIAMSON, PETER WOLOSZYN, DAVID WILLIAMS, DIOGO COSTA, ANTON ERIKSSON, CHARLES MOREY, ALEX CHAU, AMAURI MARTÍNEZ, CORALIE CHEVALLIER, BANGALORE ATHEISTS, LARRY D. LEE JR., OLD HERRINGBONE, STARRY, MICHAEL BAILEY, DAN SPERBER, ROBERT GRESSIS, TOM ROTH, IGOR N, JEFF MCMAHAN, JAKE ZUEHL, BARNABAS RADICS, MARK CAMPBELL, TOMAS DAUBNER, LUKE NISSEN, CHRIS STORY, MANUEL OLIVEIRA, KIMBERLY JOHNSON, AND BENJAMIN GELBART! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, JIM FRANK, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, TOM VANEGDOM, BERNARD HUGUENEY, CURTIS DIXON, BENEDIKT MUELLER, VEGA GIDEY, THOMAS TRUMBLE, KATHRINE AND PATRICK TOBIN, JONCARLO MONTENEGRO, AND AL NICK ORTIZ! AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, MATTHEW LAVENDER, SERGIU CODREANU, AND BOGDAN KANIVETS!

What would a Neanderthal think about our species? What about a chimpanzee? When compared to our cousins, how friendly or violent are we? Richard Wrangham is a chimpanzee expert and professor of human biology at Harvard. He is one of the most important evolutionary anthropologists alive and truly one of the dream guests for this podcast. It was a great honour to have him on the show. We discuss topics such as: What makes studying chimpanzees interesting Why you could not put 100 chimps on a plane (and not see a fight) What about bonobos? The goodness paradox: or why Wrangham thinks that humans are both a remarkably friendly and a relatively violent ape. Are humans a child-like ape? Why human skulls resemble dogs, not wolves What five decades of research have taught Wrangham about humans Mentioned scholars Jane Goodall / Takayoshi Kano / Martin Surbeck / Michael Wilson / Kim Hill / Victoria Burbank / Brian Hare / Dimitri Belyaev / Lyudmila Trut / Adam Wilkins / Tecumseh Fitch / Stephen Jay Gould / Michael Tomasello / Christopher Boehm / Douglas P. Fry / Amar Sarkar Mentioned papers Neural crest cells Neurobiology of aggression Further reading and a FREE audiobook offer: Below is a list of further book recommendations written for the general audience. You might be eligible to get one of these books for free from Audible.  Reason For Hope (by Jane Goodall). A mix of a scientific memoir and a philosophical inquiry. Read beautifully by the author. How to Tame a Fox (by Lyudmila Trut and Lee Dugatkin). Story of the remarkable experiment on domesticated foxes. The Chimpanzee Whisperer (by David Blissett and Stany Nyandwi). The story of a man who learns to pant-hoot with chimpanzees. How to get your free audiobook from Audible (if eligible, see terms & conditions behind the link): Start an Audible account or re-activate your old one using this link: https://amzn.to/3qMMshw. Once your account is live, you will get one free credit. You can use this on the book of your choice.  BECOME A SPONSOR? Please consider becoming a monthly donor via Patreon! Patreon.com/OnHumans GET IN TOUCH Email: ilari@onhumansorg A suggestive timeline of human evolution (estimated years ago)  c. 6 million years ago: Last common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees and bonobos  4 — 3 million years ago: Australopithecines 2.5 — 1.5 million years ago: Homo habilis (arguably the first human) 2 million — 100 thousand years ago: Homo erectus (first “proper” human according to Wrangham) 600 thousand — 300 thousand: Homo heidelbergensis (evolving to Neanderthals and us) 300 thousand — today : Homo sapiens 

Lee Dugatkin is a professor of biology at the University of Louisville and the author of many books, including what Greg calls one of the seminal texts in the area of evolutionary biology, “Principles of Animal Behavior.”Lee's other books include “Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others," How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog,” and “Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees.”Lee joins Greg in this episode to cover only a few of his many areas of research, touching on how he approaches his research, the relationship between theoretical and empirical work, how animal behavior stole game theory from economics, and the cost and benefits of pursuing and holding power.Episode Quotes:Why animal behaviorists think like game theorists22:22 - In the early '70s, we basically stole game theory from economics and we imported it and evolutionized it. Because people realized, what the fitness consequences of your action is depends on what others do, right? I mean, if you're aggressive, there's no inherent fitness effect of that. It depends whether or not the individual you're interacting with is aggressive or they're not, right? I mean it's a lot easier if they're not. You get the resource, and there's no threat to you. If they are, then, all of a sudden, the cost-benefit structure changes. And we need to take this into account. And so, animal behaviorists, ever since then, really do think like game theorists, in the sense of strategic behavior.The cost of being on top 36:29 - If you get into a lot of power struggles and you're on top, it's energetically costly. You're going to be fighting a lot more than others in your group.A good animal behaviorist understands theories (and knows how to test them)09:41 - It's all about work that's done in nature, in the wild. But there is as much, if not more, work done in much more controlled laboratory environments, at least for many species. I mean, you know, not for lions and chimps. Well, not for lions and that sort of thing. But there's a lot of work done in the field. There's a lot of work done in the laboratory. A lot of it is driven by theory. A lot of it is driven initially by observation, which is then tied to theory. But they're all very interconnected. You really can't be a good animal behaviorist these days without understanding theory and then how to test it.Show Links:Recommended Resources:Passions within Reason by Robert H. FrankPain experience in hermit crabs? by Robert Elwood Abigail MarshGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at the University of LouisvilleProfessional Profile at Psychology TodayProfessional Profile at The View of LifeLee Dugatkin WebsiteLee Dugatkin on TwitterLee Dugatkin on LinkedInHis Work:Lee Dugatkin on Google ScholarPower in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over OthersPrinciples of Animal Behavior, 4th EditionPushinka the Barking Fox: A True Story of Unexpected Friendship: A True Story of Unexpected FriendshipHow to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early AmericaThe Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness

From Jesse Hall in Columbia MO it's Whad'ya Know with George Kennedy of the Daily Missourian, The Skeletons, UM biologist & guppy lover lover Lee Dugatkin, Virgil Gardner & his Boone County hams, and our own John Thulin, Jeff Eckels, Clyde Stubblefield, Jim Packard and me, I'm Michael Feldman--

Lee's book with Lyudmila Trut, How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution (2017) can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Tame-Fox-Build-Dog/dp/022644418X I also highly recommend Behind the Crimson Curtain: The Rise and Fall of Peale's Museum (2020): https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Crimson-Curtain-Peales-Museum/dp/1941953727 Follow Lee on Twitter @LeeDugatkin Timestamps 1:27 Behind the Crimson Curtain and other books 2:59 The silver fox breeding project 14:13 When you select for tameness, you get a suite of other changes; evolution through changes to gene expression, rather than changes to the genes themselves. 22:36 Evo devo 24:51 The cascade of apparently unrelated changes which appear when you select for one trait. Neural crest cells. Why do tame animals often have floppy ears? 32:18 Other changes associated with domestication; cross-fostering experiments 40:08 Humans as self-domesticated apes 46:46 The amazing people working on the fox domestication experiments 54:34 More thoughts on early human–wolf interactions

What was the study of nature like before Darwin? It was an integral part of the Enlightenment and was avidly pursued by early Americans such as Thomas Jefferson and the portrait artist Charles Willson Peale, who created the most famous museum of the Revolutionary era. Lee Dugatkin is both an historical scholar of the period and an eminent evolutionary scientist. His newest book on Peale’s museum, Behind the Crimson Curtain: The Rise and Fall of Peale’s Museum, helps to situate “this view of life” against the background of centuries of intellectual thought.    --- Become a member of the TVOL1000 and join the Darwinian revolution   Follow This View of Life on Twitter and Facebook   Order the This View of Life book

How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog with Dr. Lee DugatkinUniversity of Louisville professor and author Lee Dugatkin shares the fascinating story of the science, politics, adventure, and love behind the research of a dedicated team of researchers in Siberia domesticating silver foxes to study the evolution of the dog in real time.Dr. Lee Dugatkin is a professor and university scholar in the biology department at UofL.

How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog with Dr. Lee DugatkinUniversity of Louisville professor and author Lee Dugatkin shares the fascinating story of the science, politics, adventure, and love behind the research of a dedicated team of researchers in Siberia domesticating silver foxes to study the evolution of the dog in real time.Dr. Lee Dugatkin is a professor and university scholar in the biology department at UofL.

2019.01.21 For the last six decades, a dedicated team of researchers in Siberia has been domesticating silver foxes to replay the evolution of the dog in real time. Lyudmila Trut has been a lead scientist on this work since 1959, and together with biologist and historian of science, Lee Dugatkin, she tells the inside story of the science, politics, adventure and love behind it all. Like a set of Russian nesting dolls, How to Tame a Fox {and Build a Dog} opens up to reveal story after story, each embedded within the one that preceded it. Speakers Lee Dugatkin, Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Biology, University of Louisville; Author of "How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog" (The University of Chicago Press, 2017), Individuals

How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog with Dr. Lee DugatkinUniversity of Louisville professor and author Lee Dugatkin shares the fascinating story of the science, politics, adventure, and love behind the research of a dedicated team of researchers in Siberia domesticating silver foxes to study the evolution of the dog in real time.Dr. Lee Dugatkin is a professor and university scholar in the biology department at UofL.

How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog with Dr. Lee DugatkinUniversity of Louisville professor and author Lee Dugatkin shares the fascinating story of the science, politics, adventure, and love behind the research of a dedicated team of researchers in Siberia domesticating silver foxes to study the evolution of the dog in real time.Dr. Lee Dugatkin is a professor and university scholar in the biology department at UofL.

"To me success is waking up and feeling that you’re contributing to enlightening society--and that may be through the science I’m doing, it might be through the history I’m doing, it might just be through talking to people like I am here." Lee Dugatkin on Free Food for Thought Nick and Connor sat down with Professor Dugatkin to discuss how his life and career built up to his new book, How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog). The conversation ranged from the history of science to the role of behavior in genetics research to his own scientific experiments in Siberia!

Cara chats with evolutionary biologist, behavioral ecologist, and science historian Dr. Lee Dugatkin about his new book "How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)" (coauthored with Lyudmila Trut). They discuss the famed Siberian silver fox experiment, learning a lot about evolution along the way. Follow Lee: @LeeDugatkin.

Cara chats with evolutionary biologist, behavioral ecologist, and science historian Dr. Lee Dugatkin about his new book "How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)" (coauthored with Lyudmila Trut). They discuss the famed Siberian silver fox experiment, learning a lot about evolution along the way. Follow Lee: @LeeDugatkin.

Lee Dugatkin tells the tale of a ground-breaking fox domestication experiment in Siberia. John Hausdoerffer & Gavin Van Horn discuss the future of wildness and the problem with the word "wilderness." Caryl Yasko discusses her famous Hyde Park mural. Open Stacks is the official podcast of the Seminary Co-operative Bookstores. This episode was produced by Kit Brennen and Imani Jackson.

Evolutionary biologist Lee Dugatkin talks about the six-decade Siberian experiment with foxes that has revealed details about domestication in general.  

Evolutionary biologist Lee Dugatkin talks about the six-decade Siberian experiment with foxes that has revealed details about domestication in general.  

Evolutionary biologist and science historian Lee Dugatkin talks about the legendary six-decade Siberian experiment in fox domestication run by Lyudmila Trut, his co-author of a new book and Scientific American article about the research.

Lee Dugatkin, evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist at the University of Louisville, talks about his article in the June Scientific American called "The Networked Animal," about how social networks in disparate animals species affect the lives of the entire group and its individual members. His co-author is Matthew Hasenjager, a doctoral candidate in his lab     

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Lee Dugatkin's Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose is a tale of both natural history and American history. What started out in the Revolutionary War era as an international dispute over natural history quickly took on important political overtones. The story revolves around three fascinating individuals. Thomas Jefferson, the French Count and world-renowned naturalist, George-Louis Leclerc Buffon, who claimed that all life in America was "degenerate," weak and feeble, and a very large, dead moose. While Jefferson is known to every schoolchild, the latter two, although lesser known, are equally important to the story. Their interactions lay at the heart of an amazing tale in which Jefferson obsessed over a very large, very dead moose that he believed could help quash early French arrogance toward a fledgling republic in America, and demonstrate that a young America was every bit the equal of a well-established Europe. Our Speaker Lee Alan Dugatkin is a Professor of Biology at the University of Louisville. He has a B.A. in History and a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology. In addition to Mr. Jefferson, he is the author of nine books on evolution, behavior, and the history of science, including The Altruism Equation and Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees. Lee's book The Prince of Evolution is now out in trade paperback. It is a fast moving history-of-science/adventure tale centering on the remarkable life of Prince Peter Kropotkin. Lee has lectured on his work all over the world, including in England, Canada, Japan, Sweden, The Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, and Switzerland. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky with his wife and son. You can follow Lee on Twitter @LeeDugatkin and on his Facebook page. --- Released and distributed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 United States license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ You are free to: Share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work Remix - to adapt the work Under the following conditions: Attribution - You must attribute the work (but not in any that suggests that the Atlanta Science Tavern, Atlanta Skeptics, the Speaker, nor AbruptMedia, LLC endorses you or your use of the work) to the Atlanta Science Tavern (http://www.AtlantaScienceTavern.com), Atlanta Skeptics (http://www.atlantaskeptics.com), the Speaker and AbruptMedia, LLC (http://www.AbruptMedia.com). Noncommercial - You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Share Alike - If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

Biologist and author Lee Dugatkin talks about his article "Jefferson's Moose" in the February issue of Scientific American, the story of Jefferson's battle against the European theory of American biological degeneracy. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news