Who the hell would wanna do this study, and what on earth gave them the idea to study it???
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Aw, nuts! Nurturing dads have smaller testicles, study shows
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Do men with small balls make good fathers? That may sound ridiculous, but Emory University scientists have found that men who tend to enjoy being a nurturing parent also tend to have smaller testicles.
The study, released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and involving 70 men aged 21 to 55 with at least one child under 2 years old, isn’t a joke.
Over the past decade, science has found that men across cultures undergo a transformation if they become nurturing fathers. Attentive fathers in the Philippines, Africa, Europe and North America all show significant drops in testosterone levels.
“The general idea is that lower testosterone on a day-to-day basis helps attune fathers to the needs of their children,” University of Notre Dame anthropologist Lee Gettler, who studies this effect, told NBCNews.
Lower testosterone may also make men more empathetic, less aggressive, less interested in mating, or all these.
This guy at my office is sitting there laughing, and I ask him what is so funny. He sends me a link to this story...
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Aw, nuts! Nurturing dads have smaller testicles, study shows
Brian Alexander, NBC News Facebook
Share on Facebook Twitter LinkedIn GooglePlus Email 20 hours ago
Do men with small balls make good fathers? That may sound ridiculous, but Emory University scientists have found that men who tend to enjoy being a nurturing parent also tend to have smaller testicles.
The study, released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and involving 70 men aged 21 to 55 with at least one child under 2 years old, isn’t a joke.
Over the past decade, science has found that men across cultures undergo a transformation if they become nurturing fathers. Attentive fathers in the Philippines, Africa, Europe and North America all show significant drops in testosterone levels.
“The general idea is that lower testosterone on a day-to-day basis helps attune fathers to the needs of their children,” University of Notre Dame anthropologist Lee Gettler, who studies this effect, told NBCNews.
Lower testosterone may also make men more empathetic, less aggressive, less interested in mating, or all these.
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