Lee Gettler
Anthropology
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Hormones
- New parenthood
- Parents’ physical and mental health
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Origin Stories Podcast
Fatherhood
Audio
September 26, 2023
Humans invest enormous amounts of time and energy into bringing up our babies. This unique investment is a fundamental part of what it means to be human. In this episode, the second in a three-part series on family relationships, researchers Lee Gettler, Stacy Rosenbaum, and Sonny Bechayda explore how our species' approach to fatherhood may have shaped some of the most important traits that set us apart from other mammals.
Working Fathers Podcast (Australia)
What Gave Rise to the Breadwinner? | What's Next?
Audio
July 17, 2023
Episodes 2&5: Associate Professor Lee T. Gettler, University of Notre Dame, is the Director of the Hormones, Health and Human Behavior Laboratory at Notre Dame and a faculty affiliate of the Eck Institute for Global Health.
The Economist
Fatherless sons have more testosterone
June 01, 2022
And work just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by Lee Gettler of the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana, clarifies how part of that biological mechanism, testosterone, operates.
BBC News
The riddle of how humans evolved to have fathers
June 27, 2021
Lee Gettler is hard to get on the phone, for the very ordinary reason that he's busy caring for his two young children.
The Atlantic
When Men Get Pregnancy Symptoms
June 03, 2021
Lee Gettler, an anthropologist at the University of Notre Dame, has studied fathers across the world.