Lee Alan Dugatkin, Ph.D., is a professor and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisville. He is the author of many books, including Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose. The New York Times Book Review called his latest book, How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog, “Sparkling . . . a story that is part science, part Russian fairy tale, and part spy thriller. It may serve—particularly now—as a parable of the lessons that can emerge from unfettered science, if we have the courage to let it unfold.”
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In 1792, André Michaux approached members of the American Philosophical Society informing his potential sponsors that he was “ready to go to the sources of the Missouri and even explore the rivers that flow into the Pacific Ocean.”
