Lee Alan Dugatkin

Lee Alan Dugatkin is an American evolutionary biologist and historian of science at the University of Louisville. His book Dr. Calhoun's Mousery tells the fascinating true story of John Bumpass Calhoun, the eccentric scientist whose famous mouse utopia experiments in the mid-twentieth century revealed disturbing insights about overcrowding, social breakdown, and the limits of population growth. Dugatkin combines scientific history with compelling narrative, bringing to life both the researcher and the extraordinary experiments that captured public imagination and influenced fields from psychology to urban planning. Available as an audiobook and in print, the book appeals to readers and listeners who enjoy popular science, quirky history, and stories about the scientists who changed how we understand behaviour.