For the City Times

STEVENS POINT – Lee Dugatkin, a biology professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville, will give two presentations at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP).

Dugatkin will speak about his book “Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose – Natural History in Early America” on Sept. 19 at 4 p.m. in the UWSP Trainer Natural Resources Building Room 170.

At Sept. 20 at noon, in UWSP Science Building Room D102, Dugatkin will discuss another of his books, “How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog – Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution.”

Both talks are free and open to the public, hosted by UW-Stevens Point College of Letters and Science and the Wisconsin Center for Wildlife in the College of Natural Resources.

A behavioral ecologist and science historian, Dugatkin has spoken at seminars at universities across Europe, Asia and the United States. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles on evolution and behavior in professional journals and has written several books and textbooks.

He is a contributing author to The Washington Post, Scientific American, and Newsday.