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Lee Alan Dugatkin is Professor of Biology at the University of Louisville. Lee is the author and co-author of numerous books, including “<a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo25568406.html">How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)</a>” (The University of Chicago Press), “<a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo127023354.html">Power in the Wild</a>” (The University of Chicago Press), and “<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262054546/nary-a-horse-left-standing/">Nary a Horse Left Standing</a>,” from which this article is adapted.

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