CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)

Multidisciplinary researchers explore the origins of humanity and the many facets of what makes us human.

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Update frequency: every 4 days
Average duration: 27 minutes
Episodes: 672
Years Active: 2009 - 2025

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Christopher Boehm -Social Selection Versus the Notorious Free Rider

Christopher Boehm is Professor of Biological Sciences & Anthropology and Director of the Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern California. He is a cultural anthropologist with a subsp…

00:20:20 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ed Green - The Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes

Richard “Ed” Green, Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, explains how and what we know about our relation to Neandertal Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and …

00:26:15 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Alysson Muotri - Comparisons of Human and Ape Stem Cells

Alysson Muotri, Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, focuses on human brain development and evolution, exploring mobile elements as generators of neuronal diversity. He is also interested in modelin…

00:22:30 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Katherine Pollard - Human Accelerated Regions in the Genome

Katherine Pollard, Associate Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and Associate Professor of Biostatistics at UC San Francisco, specializes in evolutionary genomics, in particular identifying gen…

00:25:20 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Sarah Hrdy - How Humans Became Such ‘Other-Regarding’ Apes

Sarah Hrdy is currently professor emerita at the University of California, Davis. She is a renowned anthropologist and primate sociobiologist who seeks to understand, step by Darwinian step, how ape…

00:23:21 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Yoav Gilad - A Comparative Study of Immune Response in Primates

Yoav Gilad is Associate Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He studies genetic and regulatory differences between humans and our close evolutionary relatives, with the long-ter…

00:22:30 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Genevieve Konopka -Human-Specific Signaling Networks

Genevieve Konopka is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The focus of her research is elucidating how developmental signaling pathways are disrupted in neuropsy…

00:23:15 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics: Closing Remarks - Margaret J. Schoeninger

Closing remarks for CARTA’s Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics symposium held in March 2009. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 16440]

00:02:48 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Richerson - Tribal Social Instincts and Human Cooperation

Peter Richerson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, focuses on the processes of cultural evolution. Series:…

00:23:47 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Steve Frank - Social Evolution in Microbes Animals and Humans

Steve Frank is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. One of his current research projects is centered on microbial life history and sociality. The t…

00:18:45 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Hammerstein - Partner Choice Markets and the Evolution of Cooperation

Peter Hammerstein is a theoretical biologist at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Given his background in game theory and economics, he is interested in conflict and cooperation at the lev…

00:19:50 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ajiit Varki - Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes

Ajit Varki, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Co-Director of CARTA, and Co-Director of the Glycobiology Research and Training Center at the Uni…

00:17:55 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Donald Pfaff - Brain Mechanisms Underlying Behavior that Obeys the Golden Rule

Donald Pfaff, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, upends our entire understanding of ethics and social contracts with an intriguing proposition: the Gol…

00:13:45 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Elaine Mardis - The Orangu-tan Genome

Elaine Mardis, Associate Professor of Genetics at Washington University and Senior Research Scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories, explores the orangutan genome. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Rese…

00:16:05 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Evan Eichler - Evolution of Human Duplications: Genomic Instability and New Genes

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 evolution, pathology and mechanisms of recent gene …

00:23:50 | Tue 26 Aug 2025

CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism- Christophe Boesch - Ecology of Cooperation and Altruism in Humans and Chimpanzees

Christophe Boesch is Director of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His research takes an inclusive approach, addressing the biology of chimpa…