Modern Mating: Love and Sex in the Digital Age

Friday, January 25, 2019 - 12:00pm

Penn Museum Rm. 345 

Dr. Garcia is Research Director of the Kinsey Institute and Ruth Halls Endowed Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He holds an MS in biomedical anthropology and PhD in evolutionary biology from Binghamton University, and completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Indiana University. His research focuses on the evolutionary foundations of variation in monogamy, intimacy, and sexual behavior, with a particular emphasis on biocultural approaches to sex, gender, dating, and reproductive strategies. He has published on a variety of topics related to romantic and sexual relationships, and is co-author of Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior (Harvard University Press) and co-editor of Evolution’s Empress: Darwinian Perspective on the Nature of Women (Oxford University Press). Since 2010 he has been Scientific Advisor to the world's largest relationship company, Match.com.