The Center for Evolution and Medicine Seminar Series features Lee Gettler, an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame.

Human males have a flexible psychobiological capacity to respond to committed parenting with shifts in hormones such as testosterone, prolactin, and oxytocin. These findings hint at evolved neuroendocrine capacities that help facilitate refocused priorities as men make the transition into fatherhood. Evolutionarily, these capacities likely emerged alongside humans’ “slow” life history. In this talk, he will discuss the evolutionary biology of fatherhood.