CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)
Episodes
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health - Anthropogeny and Medicine-Human-Specific Diseases; Heart Disease; Inflammation and Disease
21 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium brings together experts who offer examples of applications of evolutionary biology and comparative medicine to the understanding, preve...
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Zoobiquity and One Medicine; The Divided Child; Evolving Milk
14 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium brings together experts who offer examples of applications of evolutionary biology and comparative medicine to the understanding, preve...
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Barbara Natterson-Horowitz: Zoobiquity and One Medicine
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz (UCLA) explains in this talk why increasing awareness of the occurrence of "diseases of civilization" in humans and in wild...
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Carol Ward: Evolution of Early Human Body Form
05 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
New fossil evidence of hominin diversity suggests that there was not a single transition to human-like body form in early Homo. In this talk, Carol W...
CARTA: Baba Brinkman and The Rap Guide to Medicine
02 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Canadian Rap-Artist, award-winning playwright, and former tree-planter Baba Brinkman brings his singular form of "peer-reviewed" Rap to the CARTA symp...
Understanding Human Evolution: Implications for the Theory and Practice of Medicine
02 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this inaugural presentation to incoming UC San Diego Medical School students, Dr. Ajit Varki, Executive Co-Director of CARTA, provides an evolution...
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Steven Churchill: Southern Africa and the Origin of Homo
28 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the last seven years, two hominin species possessing a mixture of primitive and Homo-like morphology – Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi –...
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Philip Rightmire: Dmanisi Variation and Systematics of Early Homo
21 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Harvard’s Philip Rightmire describes the rich array of early hominin fossils discovered at the Dmanisi site in the Georgian Caucasus. He maintains ...
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health: Welcome and Introduction
18 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome and introduction to the CARTA syposium, Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Rese...
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health: Opening Remarks Randolph Nesse
18 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Opening remarks to the CARTA syposium, Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and ...
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health: Closing Remarks and Audience Questions
18 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Closing Remarks and Audience Questions for the CARTA syposium, Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health. Series: "CARTA - Center fo...
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Bernard Wood: Homo - What Who When Where?
14 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The search for the “origin of Homo” suggests we know what we are looking for, so unless we are clear about that, then how will we know when we hav...
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – William Kimbel: Australopithecus and the Emergence of Earliest Homo
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The age of origin of the Homo lineage is thought to have fallen between 2.5 and 3.0 mya. However, William Kimbel (Arizona State Univ) argues in this ...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Jeff Severinghaus: Abrupt Climate Transitions and Humans
19 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Severinghaus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego addresses Abrupt Climate Transitions and Humans. Series: "CARTA - Center ...
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Pascal Gagneux: A Potential Molecular Mechanism for the Speciation of Genus Homo
19 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The human species underwent a watershed change in the biochemical composition of its cell surfaces, via a genetic event estimated to have occurred ~...
CARTA: Mind Reading: Human Origins and Theory of Mind: Jessica Sommerville: Emergence of Theory of Mind in Human Babies
08 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Sommerville (Univ of Washington) reviews evidence to suggest that, within the first year of life, infants develop an understanding of transien...
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – Johannes Krause: Ancient European Population History
05 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) and his research team analyzed more than 200 ancient human genomes spanning th...
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – Tony Capra: The Phenotypic Legacy of Neandertal Interbreeding on Modern Humans
29 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Capra (Vanderbilt Univ) and his team analyzed the contribution of common Neandertal variants to over 1000 electronic health record (EHR)-derived ...
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – María C. Ávila-Arcos: The Genetic History of the Americas
01 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk, María Avila-Arcos (National Autonomous University of Mexico) presents a review of the current state of knowledge of the genetic history...
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution - Welcome
29 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Pascal Gagneaux welcomes guests to the CARTA symposium: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in ...
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution - Opening Remarks
29 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
UC Santa Cruz’s Ed Green delivers the opening remarks for the CARTA symposium: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic ...
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – Brenna Henn: The Origins of Modern Humans in Africa
29 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Brenna Henn (Stony Brook Univ) explores patterns of genetic diversity across Africa and models for modern human origins in this talk. She discusses w...
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution-Conclusion Audience Questions and Closing Remarks
29 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Conclusion, Audience Questions and Closing Remarks for the CARTA symposium: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Rese...
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – Kay Prüfer: Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes and What They Tell Us
28 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk Kay Prüfer (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) explains that the analysis of high coverage genome sequences from two ar...
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – The Origins of Modern Humans in Africa; Ancient European Population History; The Genetic History of the Americas
27 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium brings together researchers at the forefront of ancient DNA research and population genetics to discuss current developments and share ...
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes and What They Tell Us; A Map of Neandertal Genes in Present Day Humans; The Phenotypic Legacy of Neandertal Interbreeding on Modern Humans
20 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium brings together researchers at the forefront of ancient DNA research and population genetics to discuss current developments and share ...
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – The Landscape of Archaic Ancestry in Modern Humans; Prehistoric Human Biology as Inferred from Dental Calculus; The Oldest Human DNA Sequences
13 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium brings together researchers at the forefront of ancient DNA research and population genetics to discuss current developments and share ...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Rachel Mayberry: How the Environment Shapes Language in the Brain
04 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Mayberry of UC San Diego and her team have discovered that linguistic stimulation during early life is necessary for the human language capacit...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Charles Kennel: Introductory Remarks
30 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Kennel of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego provides introductory background for this symposium which presents varied pe...
CARTA: Domestication and Human Evolution - Robert Franciscus: Craniofacial Feminization in Canine and Human Evolution
27 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Franciscus (Univ of Iowa) explains that anatomically modern humans are recognized in the fossil record primarily by retraction and diminution o...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Veerabhadran Ramanathan: Climate Change Mitigation: In Pursuit of the Common Good
20 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Veerabhadran Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego addresses efforts towards mitigation of climate change. Series: "CA...
CARTA: Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Wenda Trevathan: Birth and the Newborn Infant
31 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk, Wenda Trevathan of New Mexico State University focuses on energetic and biomechanical factors that converge at the time of birth to set ...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: William Ruddiman: How Humans Took Control of Climate
20 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
William Ruddiman of the University of Virginia on how humans took control of climate. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in A...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Nina Jablonski: Naked Colorful Skin and Its Role in Human Social Interactions
09 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The evolution of mostly naked skin in the human lineage heralded major changes in the biological and social functions of skin. Nina Jablonski of Penns...
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Australopithecus and the Emergence of Earliest Homo; Dmanisi Variation and Systematics of Early Homo; A Potential Molecular Mechanism for the Speciation of Genus Homo
27 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium explores evidence bearing on the emergence of our genus, focusing on possible antecedents to Homo, changes in diet and body form as Aus...
Welcome - Margaret Schoeninger
22 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Schoeninger welcomes you to the symposium on Origins of Genus Homo. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogen...
Opening Remarks - Churchill
22 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Churchill opens the symposium on Origins of Genus Homo. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [...
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Herman Pontzer: Energetics and the Ecology of Early Homo
22 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk, Herman Pontzer investigates humans’ evolving metabolic strategy and its origins in the fossil record. He discusses the ecological pre...
Concluding Remarks - Rightmire QandA close- Varki
22 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Philip Rightmire and Ajit Varki wrap up the symposium with a questions and answer session and closing remarks. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Re...
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Southern Africa and the Origin of Homo; Adaptive Shifts Accompanying the Origin of Homo; Energetics and the Ecology of Early Homo
20 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium explores evidence bearing on the emergence of our genus, focusing on possible antecedents to Homo, changes in diet and body form as Aus...
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Homo: What Who When Where?; Evolution of Early Human Body Form; Evolution of Human Life History Patterns
13 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium explores evidence bearing on the emergence of our genus, focusing on possible antecedents to Homo, changes in diet and body form as Aus...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Rob Knight: Ecology and Evolution of the Skin Microbiome
22 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this presentation UC San Diego’s Rob Knight describes some of the functions of the human skin microbiome, how it and its complex chemical reperto...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Nutrition – Steven Leigh: Diets and Microbes in Primates
17 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Leigh (Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) explores the nature of the primate microbiome with the goal of understanding the impacts of microb...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Ecology and Evolution of the Skin Microbiome; Of Lice and Men: The Molecular Evolution of Human Lice; Subcutaneous Fat in Humans
30 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium brings together scientists representing evolutionary biology, genetics, dermatology, anthropology, and physiology to share their knowle...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Elizabeth Hadly: A Tipping Point? Using the Past to Forecast Our Future
21 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Hadly of Stanford University delivers a sobering accounting of evidence that forecasts a climatic tipping point and what it may mean to our ...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – The Genetics of Skin Pigmentation; Naked Colorful Skin and Its Role in Human Social Interactions; The Skin and Ultraviolet Radiation: Effects on DNA and Carcinogenesis
21 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium brings together scientists representing evolutionary biology, genetics, dermatology, anthropology, and physiology to share their knowle...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – James Cleaver: The Skin and Ultraviolet Radiation: Effects on DNA and Carcinogenesis
21 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this presentation, James Cleaver of UC San Francisco shares some surprising results from studies of mutagenesis from UV light in two hereditary syn...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Skin a Window into the Evolution of the Human Super-Organism; Human Skin: Sweating Thermoregulation and Water Balance; Evolution of Hair Follicles Mammary Glands and Sweat Glands in Humans and Other Mammals
16 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium brings together scientists representing evolutionary biology, genetics, dermatology, anthropology, and physiology to share their knowle...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Michael Sawka: Human Skin: Sweating Thermoregulation and Water Balance
14 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This talk by Michael Sawka of Georgia Tech examines the role of skin in human thermoregulation as a potentially important evolutionary factor for mode...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin: Welcome
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome remarks to symposium on human skin in an evolutionary framework. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin: Opening Remarks
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Opening remarks to symposium on human skin in an evolutionary framework. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Mark Shriver: The Genetics of Skin Pigmentation
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Shriver of Pennsylvania State University explains in this talk how evolutionary approaches to understanding which genes affect pigmentation can p...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Richard Gallo: Skin a Window into the Evolution of the Human Super-Organism
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This presentation by UC San Diego’s Richard Gallo provides an overview of the multiple cell types, both human and microbial, that comprise the human...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Sarah Millar: Evolution of Hair Follicles Mammary Glands and Sweat Glands in Humans and Other Mammals
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Millar of the University of Pennsylvania summarizes our current state of knowledge of the molecular events that control hair follicle, mammary g...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Mark Stoneking: Of Lice and Men: The Molecular Evolution of Human Lice
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Stoneking of the Max Planck Institute explains in this talk how studying the molecular evolution of the three types of human lice (head louse, bo...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Chris Kuzawa: Subcutaneous Fat in Humans
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk, Chris Kuzawa (Northwestern Uni) argues that human body fat co-evolved not just with the energetically-demanding and vulnerable brain, bu...
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin: QandA closing remarks
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Closing remarks to symposium on human skin in an evolutionary framework. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [...
CARTA: Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution – Polly Wiessner: Violence: What’s Culture Got to Do with It?
10 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
All humans have the capacity for aggression and reconciliation. However, it is cultural institutions that harness aggression by shaping cognition, co...
CARTA: Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution – Carol Ember: Resource Unpredictability Socialization and War
02 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk, Carol Ember (Yale Univ) describes the results from decades-long research that tested a variety of theories about warfare and other forms...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Jean-Jacques Hublin: The Climatic Framework of Neandertal Evolution
22 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology on the climatic framework of Neandertal evolution. Series: "CARTA - Cent...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Naomi Oreskes: Human Impacts: Will We Survive the Future?
17 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned historian of science Naomi Oreskes of Harvard University addresses the question of human impacts on climate and whether we will survive the ...
CARTA: Is the Human Mind Unique? – Daniel Dennett: Humor
03 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Why does humor exist at all? It consumes a lot of time and energy, and some humans are arguably addicted to humor. Daniel Dennett (Tufts Univ) explor...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future – A Tipping Point: Using the Past to Forecast Our Future; Human Impacts: Will We Survive the Future?; Climate Change Mitigation: In Pursuit of the Common Good
27 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium presents varied perspectives from earth scientists, ecologists, and paleoanthropologists on how climate may have shaped human evolution...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future – Abrupt Climate Transitions and Humans; How Humans Took Control of Climate; The Impacts of Arctic Sea Ice Retreat on Contemporary Climate
20 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium presents varied perspectives from earth scientists, ecologists, and paleoanthropologists on how climate may have shaped human evolution...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Questions and Answers and Closing Remarks
17 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Questions and answers and closing remarks for the symposium Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future. Series: "CARTA - Center for Aca...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Ajit Varki Welcome Remarks
17 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Co-Director of The Center for Advanced Research and Training in Anthropogen, Ajit Varki, welcomes guests and partcipants to this symposium which prese...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Peter deMenocal African Climate Change and Human Evolution
17 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Peter deMenocal of Columbia University on cycles of African climate change and its effect on human evolution. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Res...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Rick Potts: Climate Instability and the Evolution of Human Adaptability.
17 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Rick Potts of the Smithsonian Institution addresses how climate instability affected the evolution of human adaptability. Series: "CARTA - Center for ...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Charles Kennel: The Impacts of Arctic Sea Ice Retreat on Contemporary Climate
17 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Kennel of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego addresses the impacts of Arctic sea ice retreat on contemporary climate. Ser...
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future – African Climate Change and Human Evolution; The Climatic Framework of Neandertal Evolution; Climate Instability and the Evolution of Human Adaptability
13 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This symposium presents varied perspectives from earth scientists, ecologists, and paleoanthropologists on how climate may have shaped human evolution...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: David Perlmutter: Combinatoriality within the Word: Sign Language Evidence
06 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In human languages, spoken and signed, words or signs are products of combinatorial systems that combine meaningless smaller units in different ways t...
CARTA: Is the Human Mind Unique? – Merlin Donald: Skilled Performance and Artistry
22 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Merlin Donald (Queen’s Univ) opines that if one crucial adaptation had to be singled out as the signature move that started the human journey, he wo...
CARTA: Behaviorally Modern Humans: The Origin of Us – Michael Hammer: Interbreeding with Archaic Humans in Africa
26 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
CARTA: Behaviorally Modern Humans: The Origin of Us – Michael Hammer: Interbreeding with Archaic Humans in Africa Today there is an abundance of DNA...
CARTA: Is the Human Mind Unique? – V.S. Ramachandran: Inter-Modular Interactions Metaphor and the Great Leap
11 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
V.S. Ramachandran (UC San Diego) argues that human mental uniqueness emerged from the fortuitous co-emergence of certain novel anatomical structures a...
CARTA: Mind Reading: Human Origins and Theory of Mind: Juliane Kaminski: Comparing Apes and Dogs
04 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A key feature of human social interactions is the ability to make inferences about other individuals’ mental states (e.g. others’ knowledge, belie...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Language in The Brain
27 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This CARTA symposium addresses the question of how human language came to have the kind of structure it has today, focusing on three sources of eviden...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Welcome and Introduction
24 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Pascal Gagneux, associate director of CARTA, introduces this symposium which addresses the question of how human language came to have the kind of str...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Evelina Fedorenko: Specialization for Language in the Human Brain
24 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Using data from brain imaging investigations and studies of patients with brain damage, Massachusetts General Hospital’s Evelina Fedorenko argues th...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Edward Chang: Neuroscience of Speech Perception and Speech Production
24 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Chang of UC San Francisco is interested in determining the basic mechanisms that underlie our ability to perceive and produce speech. While mu...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Wrap-Up Question and Answer Closing Remarks
24 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This CARTA symposium addresses the question of how human language came to have the kind of structure it has today, focusing on three sources of eviden...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Opening Remarks
24 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Levy, Co-Chair of this CARTA symposium on the evolution of Language, introduces the speakers and topics for this symposium which addresses the q...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Contrasts Between New and Mature Languages
20 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This CARTA symposium addresses the question of how human language came to have the kind of structure it has today, focusing on three sources of eviden...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Mark Aronoff: Co-emergence of Meaning and Structure in a New Language
17 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Aronoff focuses on the emergence of words and lexical categories in new sign languages in this talk. Using naming experiments with groups of non-...
CARTA: The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins – Matt Cartmill: Body Fat and Bipedality
14 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Cartmill (Boston University) explains the connection between human body fat and bipedality. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Tra...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: How Languages Get New Structure
13 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This CARTA symposium addresses the question of how human language came to have the kind of structure it has today, focusing on three sources of eviden...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Ray Jackendoff: What Can You Say without Syntax?
09 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk Ray Jackendoff explores forms of language with very limited organization. Such languages largely lack the familiar manifestations of syn...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Simon Kirby: Language Evolution in the Lab: The Emergence of Design Features
03 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
By realizing that cultural as well as biological evolution has a central role to play in the origins of language, Simon Kirby and his team have unlock...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Carmel O’Shannessy: How Languages Get New Structure
03 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Contact languages represent some of the ways that new languages can be created, as they systematically combine elements from more than one existing la...
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Ann Senghas: Rethinking Recapitulation: Sources of Structure in Nicaraguan Sign Language
03 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk Ann Senghas traces the development of basic sentence structure and vocabulary in Nicaraguan Sign Language, in order to uncover the effect...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: James Noonan - Uniquely Human Gene Regulation
02 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
James Noonan, Assistant Professor of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine, focuses on identifying changes in gene regulation during early embryonic dev...
CARTA: Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Kristen Hawkes: Grandmothers and the Extended Family
02 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Conjugal families are often assumed to be building blocks of human societies and the primary site of childrearing in traditional communities. Alterna...
CARTA: Behaviorally Modern Humans: The Origin of Us – Alison S. Brooks: East African Archaeological Evidence
31 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Apart from references to the oldest fossil hominins attributed to Homo sapiens, the East African record is often ignored in current scenarios of moder...
CARTA: The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins – Matthew Tocheri: Insights into Hominin Bipedalism from Gorilla Anatomy
23 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this presentation, Matthew Tocheri (Smithsonian Institution) shows how the morphology of four foot bones – the medial cuneiform, talus, calcaneus...
CARTA: Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution – Robert Kelly: Do Hunter-Gatherers Tell Us About Human Nature?
16 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
When many people want to discover the core of human nature, they turn to those people who allegedly are or represent humanity’s original condition, ...
CARTA: Domestication and Human Evolution – Kazuo Okanoya: Domestication and Vocal Behavior in Finches
02 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Kazuo Okanoya (Univ of Tokyo) describes his research with Bengalese finches, a domesticated strain of wild white-rumped munias that were imported from...
CARTA: Domestication and Human Evolution: Introductory Remarks
19 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
UC San Diego’s Robert Kluender provides an excellent introductory overview of this symposium which addresses the study of animal domestication, our ...
CARTA: The Origin of Us – Richard Ed Green: Interbreeding with Archaic Humans Outside Africa
18 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
CARTA: Behaviorally Modern Humans: The Origin of Us – Richard “Ed” Green: Interbreeding with Archaic Humans outside Africa. Neanderthals and Den...
CARTA: Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Melvin Konner: Hunter-Gatherer Childhood and Human Evolution
09 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Research on infancy and childhood among !Kung (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers of northwestern Botswana, the first hunting-gathering group where childhood w...
CARTA: Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution – Donald Pfaff: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying Male Aggression
02 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Pfaff (Rockefeller Univ) addresses two questions in this talk: First, how is it possible to increase testosterone-fueled aggressive behaviors?...
CARTA: Is the Human Mind Unique? – Nicholas Humphrey: Entering the Soul Niche
26 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Human beings are animal-machines with added souls. This was famously Descartes’ view, and it’s the view of a good many people today. Nicholas Hu...