CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)
Episodes
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Richerson - Tribal Social Instincts and Human Cooperation
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Richerson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, focuse...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Elaine Mardis - The Orangu-tan Genome
Contributed by Lukas
Elaine Mardis, Associate Professor of Genetics at Washington University and Senior Research Scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories, explores the orangutan ...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ed Green - The Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes
Contributed by Lukas
Richard “Ed” Green, Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, explains how and what we know about our relation to Neandert...
CARTA: Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics: Closing Remarks - Margaret J. Schoeninger
Contributed by Lukas
Closing remarks for CARTA’s Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics symposium held in March 2009. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research ...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Christopher Boehm -Social Selection Versus the Notorious Free Rider
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Boehm is Professor of Biological Sciences & Anthropology and Director of the Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern Califor...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism- Christophe Boesch - Ecology of Cooperation and Altruism in Humans and Chimpanzees
Contributed by Lukas
Christophe Boesch is Director of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His research takes an inc...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Patricia Churchland - Brain-Based Values
Contributed by Lukas
Patricia Smith Churchland is Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego. The central focus of her research has been the exploration and development of t...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Steve Frank - Social Evolution in Microbes Animals and Humans
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Frank is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. One of his current research projects is centere...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Hammerstein - Partner Choice Markets and the Evolution of Cooperation
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Hammerstein is a theoretical biologist at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Given his background in game theory and economics, he is ...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Sarah Hrdy - How Humans Became Such ‘Other-Regarding’ Apes
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Hrdy is currently professor emerita at the University of California, Davis. She is a renowned anthropologist and primate sociobiologist who see...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Donald Pfaff - Brain Mechanisms Underlying Behavior that Obeys the Golden Rule
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Pfaff, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, upends our entire understanding of ethics and social ...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Evan Eichler - Evolution of Human Duplications: Genomic Instability and New Genes
Contributed by Lukas
Evan Eichler is an Associate Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. The long-term goal of his research is to understand the ev...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Alysson Muotri - Comparisons of Human and Ape Stem Cells
Contributed by Lukas
Alysson Muotri, Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, focuses on human brain development and evolution, exploring mobile elements as generators of neur...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Katherine Pollard - Human Accelerated Regions in the Genome
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Pollard, Associate Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and Associate Professor of Biostatistics at UC San Francisco, specializes in evo...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Yoav Gilad - A Comparative Study of Immune Response in Primates
Contributed by Lukas
Yoav Gilad is Associate Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He studies genetic and regulatory differences between humans and ou...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Genevieve Konopka -Human-Specific Signaling Networks
Contributed by Lukas
Genevieve Konopka is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The focus of her research is elucidating how developme...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ajiit Varki - Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes
Contributed by Lukas
Ajit Varki, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Co-Director of CARTA, and Co-Director of the Gly...
CARTA: Evolutionary Switches - How Regulatory Variants Shaped Human Evolution with David Gokhman
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Gokhman of the Weizmann Institute of Science explores how changes in gene regulation shaped recent human evolution. His team used massively para...
CARTA: Archaic Human Genomes with Diyendo Massilani
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The sequencing of genomes from archaic humans, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, has transformed our understanding of human evolutionary history. T...
CARTA: Archaic Introgression Reveals Human Dispersals with Janet Kelso
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The genome sequences of Neandertals and Denisovans have provided a wealth of new information about the origins, migrations, and interactions of ancien...
CARTA: Mismatch: Human Origins and Modern Disease - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The human body has traits that evolved at different times, from 1.5 billion to 2 million years ago, each bringing health benefits and risks. Multicell...
CARTA: Three Smokes in the Evolution of the Human Exposome with Caleb Finch
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Humans have long been exposed to three main types of smoke: from early domestic fires, modern wildfires, and more recently, tobacco and fossil fuel po...
CARTA: The Industrialized Gut Microbiome with Justin and Erica Sonnenburg
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The human gut microbiome is tightly linked our health. Our analyses of diverse human populations from around the globe, ranging from hunter-gatherer t...
CARTA: Biocultural Reproduction: The Human Style of Hyper-cooperation with Barry Bogin
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The essence of Being Human is the practice of Biocultural Reproduction (BCR). BCR is defined as the set of marriage and kinship based rules for extra-...
CARTA: Osteoarthritis Back Problems Difficult Birth - Scars of Our Evolution? with Martin Häusler
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Musculoskeletal disorders are one of the most important challenges of modern medicine worldwide. They are often attributed to maladaptations of our bo...
CARTA: Primate Skeletal Gene Regulation: Risks of Human Skeletal Disease Specifically Osteoarthritis with Genevieve Housman
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Phenotypic variation within the skeleton has biological, behavioral, and biomedical functional implications for individuals and species. Thus, it is c...
CARTA: Does the Placenta Drive the Evolution of Cancer Malignancy with Günter Wagner
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The rate of cancer and cancer malignancy differ greatly among mammalian species. The placental – maternal interface is also highly variable between ...
CARTA: Is There a Point to Periods? The Evolutionary History of Menstruation and Implications of Women's Health with Deena Emera
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Menstruation is the cyclical shedding of the endometrium triggered by falling progesterone levels. Menstruation is a rare trait found in less than 2% ...
CARTA: The Evolution of Powerful Yet Perilous Immune Systems with Andrea Graham
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pressures of life on Earth experienced by our ancestors – as multicellular beings, as hosts to parasites, and as home to microbes – shaped the evo...
CARTA: Cancer is Normal Development Spun Out of Control with Steve Frank
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cancer is normal development spun out of control. It is the great plasticity and power of development, without the overarching controls that guide nor...
CARTA: Mismatch: Human Origins and Modern Disease - Welcome and Opening Remarks
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The human body has traits that evolved at different times, from 1.5 billion to 2 million years ago, each bringing health benefits and risks. Multicell...
CARTA: Origins of Love - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Human beings show a range of emotional attachment, affection, and infatuation often referred to as “love”. Love promotes long-lasting and secure r...
CARTA: The Biology of Fatherhood in Humans: Evolutionary Origins and Cross-Cultural Perspectives with Lee Gettler
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Human fathers exhibit hormonal shifts in testosterone, prolactin, and oxytocin, enabling flexible responses to parenting. In species with costly pater...
CARTA: Love Monogamy and Fatherhood in Latin American Monkeys with Eduardo Fernandez-Duque
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The titi and owl monkeys of South America live in socially-monogamous groups where the male and female establish a pair bond and share parental duties...
CARTA: The Biology of Grandmaternal Love with James Rilling
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Grandmothers play a key role as alloparents in human families. A leading hypothesis suggests that the inclusive fitness benefits of grandmaternal care...
CARTA: Love Loss and Luminance with Karen Bales
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Close relationships help us shape both our other social interactions as well as our internal physiology. Do these close relationships, also known as p...
CARTA: Oxytocin's Pathway to the Origins of Speech and Dance with Constantina Theofanopoulou
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Theofanopoulou studies neural circuits behind sensory-motor behaviors like speech and dance, aiming to develop drug- and arts-based therapies for ...
CARTA: Is Vasopressin the Key to Unlocking Our Understanding of Autism? with Karen J. Parker
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Humans are an intensely social species. We experience social interactions as rewarding from infancy, and the social cognitive skills that we develop i...
CARTA: The Healing Power of Love: The Oxytocin Hypothesis with Sue Carter
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oxytocin is a peptide molecule with a multitude of physiological and behavioral functions. Based on its association with reproduction, including socia...
CARTA: Origins of Love - Welcome and Opening Remarks
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Human beings show a range of emotional attachment, affection, and infatuation often referred to as “love”. Love promotes long-lasting and secure r...
CARTA: The Biology of Hatred: Why Love Turns to Hatred and What We Can Do About It with Ruth Feldman
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ancient texts warn of love turning into hatred, as seen in stories like Cain and Abel or “Et tu, Brute?” This talk explores the neurobiology of ha...
CARTA: How Humans Came to Construct Their Worlds - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At a global level, Homo sapiens have reshaped the planet Earth to such an extent that we now talk of a new geological age, the Anthropocene. But each ...
CARTA: Toward a Smart Architecture of Habitats in the Age of Human-AI Symbiosis in an Eco-Aware World with Michael Fox
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The symbolic tools we use to design and construct our environments have been transformed by the so-called Cybernetic revolution and the innovations in...
CARTA: The Architecture of Informality with Kristine Stiphany
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This talk explores the needs of the poor and homeless around the world, charting the interplay between formal and informal settlements. The key exampl...
CARTA: Göbekli Tepe with Ricarda Braun
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The site of Göbekli Tepe is well known as a settlement of the transitional phase in SW-Asia, in which the greater mobility of the Palaeolithic increa...
CARTA: Deep Time Evolution of the Indigenous Peoples and Architectures of Australia with Paul Memmott
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This presentation will briefly trace 70,000 years of cultural evolution from the ancient crossing from Sunda to Sahul, via the swift continental colon...
CARTA: How People Learned to Live in Cities with Michael Smith
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The transition from Neolithic villages to early cities marked the greatest social transformation faced by our species before the Industrial Revolution...
CARTA: Evolving the Construction-Ready Brain with Michael Arbib
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Humans construct their physical worlds in part by designing and constructing new tools, habitations, and in due course diverse buildings and, in some ...
CARTA: Combinatorial Technology and the Emergence of the Built Environment with Larry Barham
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This talk provides a deep time perspective for assessing the behavioural implications of the creation of the earliest known structure and the technolo...
CARTA: Bird Nests: Adaptive Variation on Innate Bauplans with Susan Healy
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As distinct from the buildings of termites (interesting though these are), bird nests offer a more apropos point of comparison for human buildings –...
CARTA: How Humans Came to Construct Their Worlds - Welcome and Opening Remarks
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At a global level, Homo sapiens have reshaped the planet Earth to such an extent that we now talk of a new geological age, the Anthropocene. But each ...
CARTA: Energy in the Balance with Barnabas Calder
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every building – from the Parthenon to the Great Mosque of Damascus to a typical Georgian house – was influenced by the energy available to its ar...
CARTA: From Cave to Architecture: Settling Down in Southwest Asia with Trevor Watkins
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Human "place-making" began over a million years ago when early humans made the hearth the center of social life. By 450,000 years ago, they were using...
CARTA: Lucy - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy is one of the most famous fossils of all time. The discovery of this species had a major impact on the science of human origins and evolution. Wh...
CARTA: Naming Lucy: Taxonomic Reasoning in Paleoanthropology with Andra Meneganzin
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The discovery of a 3.2-million-year-old hominin skeleton named Lucy revolutionized human evolutionary studies. Her Linnean classification as Australop...
CARTA: Fifty Years Since Lucy’s Discovery: Advances in Scientific Knowledge on Human Origins and the Development of African Paleosciences with Yohannes Haile-Selassie
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy, discovered in 1974, revolutionized paleoanthropology, sparking interest in Africa's fossil-rich regions. This led to significant discoveries, pu...
CARTA: The First Paleo-Rock Star: Is Lucy Still an Influencer? with Ann Gibbons
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy's 50-year legacy as a superstar in human evolution is undeniable. Yet, with newer, older fossils and a growing understanding of her ancient world...
CARTA: Lucy African Heritage and ‘Paleodoms’ with Job Kibii
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since Lucy's 1974 discovery, African heritage management and paleoscientific research have evolved significantly. Partnerships with international orga...
CARTA: Lucy’s Contribution: Understanding the Sequence of Steps Leading to Human Uniqueness with Kim Hill
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Humans are a spectacular outlier among the millions of species of life on planet earth, with incredibly unique biological success. Slowly, scientists ...
CARTA: Lucy's Legacy and the Past and Future of Primate Research with Melissa Emery Thompson
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The connection between paleoanthropology and primatology began with Darwin's theory of human origins. Lucy's discovery challenged existing ideas, coin...
CARTA: How Did Lucy Become a Fossil? Investigating the Life Death and Preservation of a Famous Hominin with Anna Behrensmeyer
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy's 1974 discovery reshaped our understanding of early hominins. Geological studies dated her to 3.21 million years ago. Questions arose about her ...
CARTA: How the Paleo Diet Worked for Lucy-and Led to Us with Jessica Thompson
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy's discovery in eastern Africa reshaped human origins research, highlighting our ancestors' diverse habitats. Initially thought vegetarians like c...
CARTA: Lucy and Evolution of Hand Dexterity and Tool Use with Tracy Kivell
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The discovery of Lucy in 1974 gave insight into early hominin body form but lacked hand bones. Subsequent findings revealed Australopithecus afarensis...
CARTA: Lucy - Welcome and Opening Remarks
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy is one of the most famous fossils of all time. The discovery of this species had a major impact on the science of human origins and evolution. Wh...
CARTA: What Was Lucy’s Impact on our Understanding of Bipedality Diet and Encephalization? with Carol Ward
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paleoanthropology is booming with discoveries, reshaping our understanding of human evolution. Lucy's 1974 find stands as a milestone, providing cruci...
CARTA: The Savanna Hypothesis: Tracing an Enigmatic Idea Through Time with Kaye Reed
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The savanna hypothesis suggests that early human ancestors evolved in open grasslands. Raymond Dart's 1925 discovery of Australopithecus africanus at ...
CARTA: What Was Lucy’s Impact on Our Understanding of Other Australopith Relatives? with Bernard Wood
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1974, understanding early human evolution was limited. Lucy's discovery provided insights into one early hominin, while her species, Australopithec...
CARTA: Lucy's Children and Human Origins with Zeray Alemseged
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Owing to its morphological and temporal placement, the Lucy species, Australopithecus afarensis, plays a pivotal role in our understanding of the hu...
CARTA: The Discovery and Initial Interpretation of ‘Lucy’ as a Tipping-Point in Paleoanthropology with Ian Tattersall
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The discovery of Lucy, a fossil from the 1970s, changed paleoanthropology. Before Lucy, scientists saw human ancestors as rough guides, not distinct s...
CARTA: Before Lucy: The State of Knowledge on Human Origins with Donald Johanson
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since entering into the field of paleoanthropology in 1970, Donald Johanson has found a more focused and rigorous implementation of an expanded collab...
CARTA: Body Modification - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Permanent body modification is a unique and variable practice among humans, not observed in other mammals. Despite being costly and risky, it is regul...
CARTA: Lip Plates in Ethiopia with Shauna LaTosky
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the literature on lip plates in Southern Ethiopia there has been a strong emphasis on their socio-cultural importance and little information about ...
CARTA: The Recent History of Piercing Practices in Europe and North America with Paul King
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across continents, material evidence of body piercing jewelry abounds in the archeological record. However, the varying procedures and processes of pi...
CARTA: Permanent Body Modification in Mesoamerica and Central America with Rosemary Joyce
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Archaeological research in Mexico and Central America reveals insights into cultural practices, focusing on the history of body modification. Examinin...
CARTA: Female and Male Genital Modification with Ellen Gruenbaum
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This talk offers an overview of the many forms of permanent genital modifications embedded in human cultures, where they occur, the reasons why, the a...
CARTA: Dental Ablation and Facial Piercing in Late Pleistocene Southwestern Asia and Africa with John Willman
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bioarchaeological studies of Pleistocene populations, examining practices like tooth ablation, facial piercing, and cranial modification, contribute t...
CARTA: Permanent Body Modification: Archaeological and Early Historical Evidence with Brea McCauley
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, permanent body modification (PBM) is very popular. Studies suggest that well over a billion living people have experienced one or more types of...
CARTA: A Multistep Evolutionary Scenario for the Culturalization of the Human Body with Francesco d'Errico
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our ability to adapt our bodies to culture has ancient origins. We suggest a timeline for how the culturalization of the human body evolved, starting ...
CARTA: The Recent History of Tattooing in Europe and North America with Matt Lodder
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This talk presents a new account of the development of professional tattooing in Britain and America since the late 19th century. Research based exclu...
CARTA: Body Modification - Welcome and Opening Remarks
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Permanent body modification is a unique and variable practice among humans, not observed in other mammals. Despite being costly and risky, it is regul...
CARTA: Footbinding: A Gene-Culture Co-evolutionary Approach to a One Thousand Year Tradition with Ryan Nichols
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This talk explores the 1000-year practice of "footbinding" in ethnically Han Chinese families, involving modifying young girls' feet by wrapping the t...
CARTA: CompAnth - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Comparative Anthropogeny (CompAnth) is the study of distinctly human traits and characteristics in the context of comparisons with our closest living ...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - Language: Uniqueness Out of the Ordinary with Eva Wittenberg
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Human language is a strong contender for the title of most often named species-specific feature in the literature. But why is that? In this talk, Eva ...
CARTA: CompAnth - Welcome and Opening Remarks
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Comparative Anthropogeny (CompAnth) is the study of distinctly human traits and characteristics in the context of comparisons with our closest living ...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - Did Humans Evolve Concealed Ovulation? with Pascal Gagneux
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Human ovulation lacks visible signs, unlike chimpanzees and bonobos with conspicuous genital swellings during fertility. This led to the concept of "c...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - The Evolution of Shorter Inter-birth Intervals in Humans with Corinna Most
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Life history theory suggests that inter-birth intervals (IBIs) depend on a trade-off between maternal investment in current and future offspring, infl...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - Insight into Human-specific Adaptations to High Altitude with Tatum Simonson
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
High-altitude adaptation stands out as one of the most notable examples of evolution within our species. Despite similar challenges of decreased oxyge...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - How Special are Our Neanderthal Genes? with Andrew Schork
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The human genome contains segments of DNA with non-human origins. This introgressed genetic material is remnants of mating events between early modern...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - Social Complexity: Why Modern Humans are More Like Ants Than Chimpanzees with Mark Moffett
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The most complex organizations in the living world beside those of humans are the colonies of ants. Mark Moffett will argue that points of comparison ...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - Ethnology as a Tool for Understanding Human Evolution with Mark Collard
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ethnology, also known as cross-cultural analysis or comparative anthropology, involves comparing features of historically documented human societies. ...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - Delayed Neuronal Maturation in Humans with Carol Marchetto
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since humans split from their primate ancestors, their brains evolved with a larger mass relative to body weight, more cortical neurons, and distinct ...
CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - A Weakly Structured Stem for our Origins in Africa with Brenna Henn
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We know Homo sapiens started in Africa, but we're uncertain about how they spread. Limited fossils and data have hindered our understanding. I'll disc...
CARTA: The Role of Myth in Anthropogeny - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The human penchant for storytelling is universal, early-developing, and profoundly culture-shaping. Stories (folk tales, narratives and myths) influen...
CARTA: The Role of Myth in Anthropogeny - The Salience of Animals and the Trickster in San and Hunter-gatherer Mythology with Mathias Guenther
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Animals and tricksters are highly prominent beings in the mythology of the San Bushmen of southern Africa, as well as of hunter-gatherers in other reg...
CARTA: The Role of Myth in Anthropogeny - Topologies of Belief: Folklore Conspiracy Theories and Threat with Timothy Tangherlini
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Political, financial and environmental crises coupled to the rise of social media have, in recent years, created a perfect storm of mis- and disinform...
CARTA: The Role of Myth in Anthropogeny - Writing Plague: Myth Morality and Modernity with Mark Honigsbaum
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the foundational texts of Western civilisation (the Bible, Iliad), plagues are symbols of divine retribution, signifying Godly displeasure with hum...
CARTA: The Role of Myth in Anthropogeny - Stories of Fire: Origins Interactions and Futures with Michael Chazan
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the global response to climate change drives a profound reevaluation of our interaction with fire, there's a timely opportunity to delve into the r...
CARTA: The Role of Myth in Anthropogeny - All the Stories Animals Don't Tell with Daniel Povinelli
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Humans have been telling stories about animals as long as humans have been telling stories. One story humans tell about animals is the one about how, ...
CARTA: The Role of Myth in Anthropogeny - Hunting Hypothesis and Male Myths in Anthropogeny wth Karen Kramer
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The hunting hypothesis proposes that the dietary shift to meat procurement was the catalyst favoring a suite of transformative human biological and be...
CARTA: The Role of Myth in Anthropogeny - Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The human penchant for storytelling is universal, early-developing, and profoundly culture-shaping. Stories (folk tales, narratives and myths) influen...