Anna Machin
Dr. Anna Machin is an evolutionary anthropologist, writer and broadcaster who studies the science behind our closest relationships including those between parents and children, lovers, friends and family. She spent over a decade at the University of Oxford using multi-disciplinary techniques, including neuroscience, genetics and psychology, to explore the question “What is Love?”. She broadcasts regularly in the UK, Europe, US and Australia, has written for The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Guardian, Medium and Aeon and is the author of The Life of Dad: The Making of the Modern Father (2018) and Why We Love: The New Science Behind our Closest Relationships (2022).
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