It’s all about who you know. Whether vampire bats sharing blood meals for survival, macaque monkeys forming grooming pacts after a deadly hurricane, marmots warning others of danger lurking in the mist, or long-tailed manakins singing and dancing their little hearts out—it pays to be well connected.
Dr. Lee Alan Dugatkin is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Biology at The University of Louisville. He is an animal behaviorist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. Dr. Dugatkin is the author of over 175 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. Dr. Dugatkin has had the privilege of speaking at over 150 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, the Washington Post, Cerebrum, BioScience and the Wilson Quarterly.