CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)
Multidisciplinary researchers explore the origins of humanity and the many facets of what makes us human.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 672
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
CARTA: Biocultural Reproduction: The Human Style of Hyper-cooperation with Barry Bogin
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-maternal cooperation in the production, feeding, …
00:17:57 |
Mon 23 Jun 2025
CARTA: Osteoarthritis Back Problems Difficult Birth - Scars of Our Evolution? with Martin Häusler
Musculoskeletal disorders are one of the most important challenges of modern medicine worldwide. They are often attributed to maladaptations of our body to our peculiar form of locomotion, upright bi…
00:20:03 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
CARTA: Primate Skeletal Gene Regulation: Risks of Human Skeletal Disease Specifically Osteoarthritis with Genevieve Housman
Phenotypic variation within the skeleton has biological, behavioral, and biomedical functional implications for individuals and species. Thus, it is critical to understand how genomic, environmental,…
00:22:17 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
CARTA: Does the Placenta Drive the Evolution of Cancer Malignancy with Günter Wagner
The rate of cancer and cancer malignancy differ greatly among mammalian species. The placental – maternal interface is also highly variable between placental mammals. This lecture will discuss recent…
00:19:38 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
CARTA: Is There a Point to Periods? The Evolutionary History of Menstruation and Implications of Women's Health with Deena Emera
Menstruation is the cyclical shedding of the endometrium triggered by falling progesterone levels. Menstruation is a rare trait found in less than 2% of mammals and likely evolved independently at le…
00:24:17 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
CARTA: The Evolution of Powerful Yet Perilous Immune Systems with Andrea Graham
Pressures of life on Earth experienced by our ancestors – as multicellular beings, as hosts to parasites, and as home to microbes – shaped the evolved structure and function of our immune systems. S…
00:18:58 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
CARTA: Cancer is Normal Development Spun Out of Control with Steve Frank
Cancer is normal development spun out of control. It is the great plasticity and power of development, without the overarching controls that guide normal development toward an integrated adult form. …
00:16:47 |
Wed 28 May 2025
CARTA: Mismatch: Human Origins and Modern Disease - Welcome and Opening Remarks
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. Multicellularity enabled organs and cancer. The immune sys…
00:07:52 |
Wed 28 May 2025
CARTA: Origins of Love - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
Human beings show a range of emotional attachment, affection, and infatuation often referred to as “love”. Love promotes long-lasting and secure relationships that involve nurturing and support. Biol…
01:08:58 |
Sat 29 Mar 2025
CARTA: The Biology of Fatherhood in Humans: Evolutionary Origins and Cross-Cultural Perspectives with Lee Gettler
Human fathers exhibit hormonal shifts in testosterone, prolactin, and oxytocin, enabling flexible responses to parenting. In species with costly paternal care, these shifts balance mating and parenti…
00:23:13 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
CARTA: Love Monogamy and Fatherhood in Latin American Monkeys with Eduardo Fernandez-Duque
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. Why do males of these species mate in a monogam…
00:18:25 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
CARTA: The Biology of Grandmaternal Love with James Rilling
Grandmothers play a key role as alloparents in human families. A leading hypothesis suggests that the inclusive fitness benefits of grandmaternal care selected for an extended female lifespan after r…
00:17:17 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
CARTA: Love Loss and Luminance with Karen Bales
Close relationships help us shape both our other social interactions as well as our internal physiology. Do these close relationships, also known as pair bonds, look and function similarly in species…
00:21:40 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
CARTA: Oxytocin's Pathway to the Origins of Speech and Dance with Constantina Theofanopoulou
Dr. Theofanopoulou studies neural circuits behind sensory-motor behaviors like speech and dance, aiming to develop drug- and arts-based therapies for brain disorders. Her brain imaging research revea…
00:27:13 |
Mon 24 Feb 2025
CARTA: Is Vasopressin the Key to Unlocking Our Understanding of Autism? with Karen J. Parker
Humans are an intensely social species. We experience social interactions as rewarding from infancy, and the social cognitive skills that we develop in the context of our earliest interpersonal attac…
00:25:24 |
Fri 21 Feb 2025
CARTA: Origins of Love - Welcome and Opening Remarks
Human beings show a range of emotional attachment, affection, and infatuation often referred to as “love”. Love promotes long-lasting and secure relationships that involve nurturing and support. Biol…
00:06:40 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
CARTA: The Healing Power of Love: The Oxytocin Hypothesis with Sue Carter
Oxytocin is a peptide molecule with a multitude of physiological and behavioral functions. Based on its association with reproduction, including social bonding, sexual behavior, birth and maternal be…
00:23:13 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
CARTA: The Biology of Hatred: Why Love Turns to Hatred and What We Can Do About It with Ruth Feldman
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 hatred based on the biology of love: the oxytocin syste…
00:20:11 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
CARTA: How Humans Came to Construct Their Worlds - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
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 of us shapes our own worlds, physically, symbolic…
00:23:41 |
Sun 15 Dec 2024
CARTA: Toward a Smart Architecture of Habitats in the Age of Human-AI Symbiosis in an Eco-Aware World with Michael Fox
The symbolic tools we use to design and construct our environments have been transformed by the so-called Cybernetic revolution and the innovations in materials technology that have accompanied them.…
00:22:54 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
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