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Why do men become fathers?
How does a man's body and brain change when he becomes a dad? Evolutionary anthropologist Dr Anna Machin has been studying new fathers for her book The Life of Dad and will be discussing the science of fatherhood and how much a man's genes determine what kind of father he is going to be.
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