CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)

CARTA: The Role of Myth in Anthropogeny - Firelit Stories: Creating Imaginary Communities with Polly Wiessner

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Some 350 to 400,000 years ago when our ancestors gained control of fire, the day was extended to provide many hours for social interaction, undisturbe...

CARTA: The Role of Myth in Anthropogeny - Why Humans Tell Stories with Brian Boyd

15 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Why are humans a compulsively storytelling species? Why especially do we invent stories, why do we tell one another stories that both teller and audie...

CARTA: The Role of Myth in Anthropogeny - Folktales Animals and the Human Search for Origins with Brandon Barker

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For more than a century, folklorists have indexed a vast number of the world’s folkloric narratives according to varying structures (i.e. tale types...

CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks

07 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The origin of humans is a difficult scientific problem in evolution that is grounded in biology and molded by culture. Recent advances in neuroscience...

CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - The Evolution of Syntax and Pragmatics in a Gradualist Scenario with Eva Wittenberg

06 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pragmatics poses a headache to developers of artificial systems. But how did language evolve to efficiently relay so much pragmatic trickery? Eva Witt...

CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - The Parallel Architecture in Language and Elsewhere with Ray Jackendoff

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Parallel Architecture is a theory of the mental representations involved in the language faculty. These representations are organized in three orthogo...

CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - Evolution of Birdsong Learning and Human Spoken Language with Erich Jarvis

29 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vocal learning is one of the most critical components of spoken language. It has only evolved several independent times among mammals and birds. Altho...

CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - Common Sense and AI with Gerd Gigerenzer

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Common sense is shared knowledge about people and the physical world, enabled by the biological brain. It comprises intuitive psychology, intuitive ph...

CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - Human Languages and Their Cognition(s) with Damián Blasi

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The emergence of language is routinely regarded as a major (or even the main) evolutionary transition in our species’ history. Much less attention a...

CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - Linking Communication and Cooperation: Lessons from the Naked Mole-Rat with Alison Barker

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Highly organized social groups require well-structured and dynamic communication systems. Naked mole-rats form some of the most rigidly structured soc...

CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The origin of humans is a difficult scientific problem in evolution that is grounded in biology and molded by culture. Recent advances in neuroscience...

CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - What Language Models Mean with Blaise Agüera y Arcas

08 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Large language models (LLMs) have now achieved many of the longstanding goals of the quest for generalist AI. While LLMs are still very imperfect (tho...

CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - Learning by Experimenting: Continually Evolving Machines with Pulkit Agrawal

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Evolution always presented life forms with new challenges -- due to changes in weather, terrain, competition between different organisms, and other re...

CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - The Role of Feedback in the Parallel Architecture of Language with Carmen Amo Alonso and John Doyle

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Feedback interconnections are widespread in the brain; yet clear explanations for most of them are currently lacking. Carmen Amo Alonso and John Doyle...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks

05 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anthropogeny, has provided many new discoveries over the past decade, ranging from new fossil finds to ancient DNA data, including from extinct homini...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny with Evan Eichler and Daniel Geschwind

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anthropogeny, has provided many new discoveries over the past decade, ranging from new fossil finds to ancient DNA data, including from extinct homini...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny with Pascal Gagneux Robert Kluender Anne Stone

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anthropogeny, has provided many new discoveries over the past decade, ranging from new fossil finds to ancient DNA data, including from extinct homini...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny with Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Carol Marchetto

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anthropogeny, has provided many new discoveries over the past decade, ranging from new fossil finds to ancient DNA data, including from extinct homini...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny with Terry Sejnowski and Sarah Tishkoff

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anthropogeny, has provided many new discoveries over the past decade, ranging from new fossil finds to ancient DNA data, including from extinct homini...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anthropogeny, has provided many new discoveries over the past decade, ranging from new fossil finds to ancient DNA data, including from extinct homini...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Perspectives on the Future of Fossil-Based Human Origins Research with Yohannes Haile-Selassie

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Current knowledge of our deep past is primarily derived from ancient fossils of our ancestors that paleoanthropologists search for and discover in som...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - The Evolution of Language Structure and the History/Future of Lingustics with Robert Kluender

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For the past 30 years, the frontiers of language science have been in the areas of neurolinguistics and genetics, both of which arose in conjunction w...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Cognitive and Behavioral Variation with Daniel Geschwind

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Human cognition and behavior are highly heritable and so is liability to disorders that affect them. This includes neuropsychiatric disorders such as ...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - African Genomic Analyses Shed Light on Human Evolutionary History with Sarah Tishkoff

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Africa is thought to be the ancestral homeland of all modern human populations within the past 300,000 years. It is also a region of tremendous cultur...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Why Should We Care About Anthropogeny? with Pascal Gagneux

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our species is between 300,000 and 200,000 years old. For most of this one-quarter of a million years, up until just 12,000 years ago, it appears that...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Ancient DNA and Anthropogeny with Anne Stone

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The first Neandertal DNA was recovered 25 years ago, and since then, ancient DNA has provided many surprising insights into human evolutionary history...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Genome Structure Variation and the Evolution of Human Specific Genes with Evan Eichler

10 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The discovery and resolution of genetic variation is critical to understanding disease and evolution. Our most recent work sequences diverse human and...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Computational Neuroscience and Anthropogeny with Terry Sejnowski

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Neuroscience has made great strides in the last decade following the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative,...

CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Using Stem Cells to Study Human Origins with Carol Marchetto

26 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The human brain has a larger mass with respect to body weight, increased cortical neurons with respect to size, an expanded proliferative zone, and un...

CARTA: Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes with David Holway Oliver Ryder and Patricia Hunt

24 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As humans have evolved, so has our ability to drastically alter the planet we call home. In this collection of talks from the CARTA symposium, "Humans...

CARTA: Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes with Rob Knight Alice Gorman and Asher Rosinger

18 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As humans have evolved, so has our ability to drastically alter the planet we call home. In this collection of talks from the CARTA symposium, "Humans...

CARTA: Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes with Walter Willett Jessica Thompson David Tilman

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As humans have evolved, so has our ability to drastically alter the planet we call home. In this collection of talks from the CARTA symposium, "Humans...

CARTA - Humans: The Planet Altering Apes - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks (Margaret Schoeninger)

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This CARTA public symposia addresses specific examples of how humans have drastically altered the planet. Acknowledged experts discuss clearly defined...

CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Large-scale Human Modification of the Planetary Microbiome with Rob Knight

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Through the Earth Microbiome Program and complementary efforts, we have sampled a broad range of microbiomes from across the planet. All microbiomes t...

CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Accumulating Space Debris and the Risk of Kessler Syndrome with Alice Gorman

01 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik 1, the first human object to leave Earth. In the 65 years since then the region of Earth orbit has become filled wi...

CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Loss of Species Loss of Genetic Variation and the Future of Earth’s Biota with Oliver Ryder

18 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are experiencing an accelerated rate of loss of species due to human activities. This anthropogenic phenomenon extends beyond extinction. It encomp...

CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Global Alteration of the Nitrogen Cycles by Humans with David Tilman

11 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Humans now annually add more biologically available nitrogen to the Earth’s land surfaces than do all natural processes. For 3 billion years, availa...

CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Sixth Mass Extinction the Tree of Life and the Future of Humanity with Gerardo Ceballos

28 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are losing species much more rapidly now than in the last two million years! At this pace, we may lose a large proportion of vertebrates, including...

CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Human Introduction and Dissemination of Invasive Species with David Holway

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The introduction of species into new environments has occurred throughout human history. While most introductions fail and most of those few that esta...

CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Human Transformation From Environmental Managers to Ecosystem Damagers with Jessica Thompson

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Beginning with Homo erectus at least a million years ago, hominins have used fire to engineer the world around them. The earliest uses of fire surely ...

CARTA - Humans: The Planet Altering Apes - Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks (Ajit Varki)

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This CARTA public symposia addresses specific examples of how humans have drastically altered the planet. Acknowledged experts will discuss clearly d...

CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Anthropogenic Global Water Insecurity with Asher Rosinger

21 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Humans have adapted to meet their water needs across disparate environments over time using behavioral adaptations. Yet, as temperatures rise and fres...

CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Humans vs. Humankind: Are Human-Made Chemical Pollutants Impacting Global Fertility? with Patricia Hunt

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Human-made chemicals with the unexpected ability to interfere with our body’s endocrine system have become prominent contaminants in daily life. Bec...

CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - How to Feed 10 Billion People with Walter Willett

14 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The world is facing a health crisis due to increasing rates of obesity and diabetes, and the consequences of this pandemic will accumulate over the co...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This CARTA public symposia focuses on the long and short-term impact of humans on the planet that we inhabit, and the consequences for the future of o...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene - Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks (Gage and Kennel)

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This CARTA public symposia focuses on the long and short-term impact of humans on the planet that we inhabit, and the consequences for the future of o...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene with Leslie Aiello Michael Purugganan and Vanessa Ezenwa

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Speakers Leslie Aiello, Michael Purugganan and Vanessa Ezenwa discuss humanity's past, present and future of the Anthropocene. Aiello speaks on how th...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene with Mark Moffett Charles Kennel and Martin Rees

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Speakers Mark Moffett, Charles Kennel and Martin Rees discuss humanity's past, present and future of the Anthropocene. Moffett examines the effects of...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene with V. Ramanathan Nancy Knowlton and David (Jonah) Western

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Speakers V. Ramanathan, Nancy Knowlton and Jonah Western discuss humanity's past, present and future of the Anthropocene. Veerabhadran Ramanathan has ...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene on The Oceans and the Anthropocene with Nancy Knowlton

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The ocean is enormous, indeed so large that for centuries we assumed that there was nothing we could do to substantially harm it. Unfortunately, we no...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene on How Humans Evolved the Capacity to Change the Entire Planet with Leslie Aiello

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The human capacity to change the planet is not something new, but is rooted in our deep evolutionary past. One of the hallmarks of humans is our large...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene on The Domestication of Crops and the Anthropocene with Michael Purugganan

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Domesticated species of crops are an interesting group of organisms that have co-evolved with Homo sapiens, and have been important in human survival ...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene on Honoring Paul Crutzen A Personal Appreciation with V. Ramanathan

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Veerabhadran Ramanathan has had the privilege and pleasure of collaborating with Paul Crutzen for more than 40 years. During the year 2000, when he an...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene on We Alone: How Humans Have Conquered the Planet and Can Also Save It with David (Jonah) Western

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Conservation is common to all societies which learned to live within ecosystem limits. In breaking the evolutionary and biological straight-jackets co...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene on The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases with Vanessa Ezenwa

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change is one of the hallmarks of the Anthropocene. Rising global temperatures are having profound effects on ecosystems and the organisms tha...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene on Potential Utopian and Dystopian Futures with Martin Rees

12 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This century is the first in Earth's history when the catastrophic threats to the entire planet can be induced by one species, humans. We have an ever...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene on The Coming Crisis of the Anthropocene with Charles Kennel

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Connections between past and present human exploitation of the environment, the coming crisis of the Anthropocene and what we humans can do to allevia...

CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene on Ants and the Anthropocene with Mark Moffett

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This talk considers the effects of the most aggressive ants on the environment, arguing that certain invasive species resemble humans in their capacit...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - Carol Marchetto Joseph Hacia and James Rilling

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

UC San Diego professor Carol Marchetto discusses how a comparative gene expression analysis of human and non-human primates revealed differences in th...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This symposium addresses several important distinctly human characteristics that range from molecules, to metabolism, anatomy, disease, and behavior. ...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - LINE1 Retrotransposons - Carol Marchetto

06 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Identifying cellular and molecular differences between human and non-human primates is essential to the basic understanding of the evolution and diver...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - The Impact of Intergroup Social Ties on Coalitionary Aggression - Polly Wiessner

06 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Unlike our closest primate relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, humans form strong intergroup ties which can mitigate coalitionary aggression and make ...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - Dietrich Stout Pascal Gagneux and James O'Connell

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emory University professor Dietrich Stout discusses an evolutionarily motivated definition of technology that highlights three key features: material ...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - Polly Wiessner Rafael Núñez and Nissi Varki

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Arizona State University and University of Utah professor Polly Wiessner addresses intergroup ties between humans, chimpanzees and bonobos and explore...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - Technology - Dietrich Stout

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Technology is clearly central to human life and evolution but remains hard to define and study. Emory University professor Dietrich Stout discusses an...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - Welcome and Opening Remarks

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This symposium addresses several important distinctly human characteristics that range from molecules, to metabolism, anatomy, disease, and behavior. ...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - Quantity and Number - Rafael Nuñez

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Humans and many other species have biologically endowed abilities for discriminating “quantities” to some degree (e.g., subitizing), but only huma...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - Siglec-11 Expression in the Brain - Ajit Varki

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sialic acid-recognizing immunoglobulin-type lectins (Siglecs) are a family of cell surface proteins prominently expressed on immune cells in mammals. ...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - Human Arcuate Fasciculus - James Rilling

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Language is a human cognitive specialization, and as such, is expected to be supported by human neurological specializations. The arcuate fasciculus i...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - Incidence of Carcinomas - Nissi Varki

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

During embryogenesis, the three germ layers (endoderm, ectoderm, mesoderm) differentiate into epithelial and non-epithelial cells, which eventually fo...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - Phytanic Acid Metabolism - Joseph Hacia

23 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Diet has played a major role in the evolution of human and non-human primate digestive systems. Phytanic acid is a potentially toxic branched chain fa...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - ABO Blood Groups - Pascal Gagneux

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ABO Blood groups represent the first described human molecular polymorphism. The ABO gene encodes variants of a protein (a glycosyltransferase) that p...

CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny: From Molecules to Societies - Food Sharing - James O'Connell

16 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Humans are unusual in that we depend on shared foods, especially among families and friends and between potential mates. Food sharing occurs between h...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks

10 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Discussion session about The Evolution of Human Physical Activity. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Scien...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Herman Pontzer Grazyna Jasienska Ellen Breen

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Daniel Lieberman David Raichlen

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Daniel Lieberman Yana Kamberov

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Tatum Simonson Jandy Hanna David Carrier

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - David Carrier - The Anatomical Basis of Aggression in Hominins

03 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Jandy Hanna -The Rise and Fall of Climbing in Human Evolution

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Grazyna Jasienska - Physical Activity and Women's Reproductive Health

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Daniel Lieberman - The Evolution of Walking and Running  

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Herman Pontzer - The Evolution of Human Metabolism  

26 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - David Raichlen - Evolutionary Links Between Physical Activity and the Brain

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Introduction and Opening Remarks

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. Although hunter-gatherers sometimes climb and fight, they also walk and run long di...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Ellen Breen - A Human Genetic Mechanism for Endurance Running

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: Cellular and Molecular Explorations of Anthropogeny - Wysocka: Making Faces: Regulatory Evolution and Variation in the Human Neural Crest

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Explores cellular anthropology to understand how variation in human regulatory elements can mediate morphological evolution and individual variation o...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Yana Kamberov - Genetic Drivers of Human Thermoregulatory Skin Traits

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Physical Activity - Tatum Simonson - Human Adaptation to High Altitudes and Aquatic Environments

19 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Human physical activities differ significantly from other species. How, when and why did these capabilities evolve? What adaptations underlie them? An...

CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Barbara Parry George Koob Tom Csordas

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...

CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Kenneth Kidd Helen Weng

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...

CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Frederick Barrett Jean-Pierre Changeux

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...

CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Implications for Anthropogeny - QandA

25 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...

CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Implications for Anthropogeny: George Koob - Addiction and Loss of Control

24 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...

CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Ann Taves Read Montague Tom Csordas

23 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...

CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Implications for Anthropogeny: Helen Weng -Intersectional Neuroscience: Meditation and Diversity

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...

CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Implications for Anthropogeny: Barbara Parry - Peripartum Depression

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...

CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Implications for Anthropogeny: Read Montague - The Neural Underpinnings of Mindfulness

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...

CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Implications for Anthropogeny: Jean-Pierre Changeux - Cognitive Enhancement: Nicotine Caffeine Cocaine Amphetamines and General Anesthesia

17 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...

CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Implications for Anthropogeny: Frederick Barrett - Psychedelics

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...