Behavioural Ecology

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor & Distinguished University Scholar, Department of Biology, University of Louisville

EDUCATION:
PhD, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1991

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr Dugatkin's main area of research interest is the evolution of social behavior. He is currently studying the evolution of cooperation, the evolution of aggression, the interaction between genetic and cultural evolution, the evolution of disease virulence, the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the evolution of senescence and the evolution of risk-taking behavior. Dr. Dugatkin is the author of over 125 articles on evolution and behavior in such journals as Nature, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Proceedings of The Royal Society of London. He has published three books on the evolution of cooperation. The first, Cooperation among Animals: An Evolutionary Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1997), is a technical monograph on the subject. This book was awarded one of Choice Magazine’s "Outstanding Academic Books of the Year" for 1997. The second book, Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees (The Free Press, 1999), is a trade book and has recently been translated and published in Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Dr. Dugatkin’s other trade book on cooperation and altruism is The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness (Princeton University Press, 2006: this book has been translated into German and Spanish). Dr. Dugatkin is the author of a textbook on animal behavior, entitled Principles of Animal Behavior (W.W. Norton, 2004). The second edition (2009) of Principles of Animal Behavior is currently available here.His newest trade book is Mr. Jefferson and The Giant Moose, was published by The University of Chicago Press in September 2009.Dr. Dugatkin has had the privilege of speaking at over sixty major universities all around the world including Harvard, Oxford University (England), Cornell, The University of Chicago, The London School of Economics, and Cambridge University (England), and is a contributing author to Scientific American, The New Scientist, Newsday. Cerebrum, BioScience and The Wilson Quarterly.