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: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Cynthia Beall: Adaptations to High Altitude
In this talk, Cynthia Beall (Case Western Reserve Univ) describes different patterns of adaptive biological characteristics among high-altitude native populations and the accumulating evidence explai…
00:18:46 |
Tue 13 Jun 2017
CARTA: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny - Mind Over Reality Transition: Evolution of Human Mortality Denial; Human Mortality Denial and Terror Management Theory; Lure of Death: Suicide as a Uniquely Human Phenomenon
Ajit Varki explores the human capacity for denial of reality and how that has shaped our evolution; Sheldon Solomon different philosophies surrounding mortality; and Nicholas Humphrey provides a comp…
00:57:50 |
Wed 24 May 2017
CARTA: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny – What is Fear? And Is Fear of Death Really a Fear?; The Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World; Death as Celebration: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Joseph LeDoux explores the physiological distinctions between human response to fear and anxiety and how that can inform our understanding of behaviors and concepts associated with death and mortalit…
00:57:55 |
Wed 17 May 2017
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Michael Gurven: Heart Disease in Hunter-Gatherers?
While evidence of atherosclerosis in both ancient and contemporary preindustrial humans exists, Michael Gurven (UC Santa Barbara) explains in this talk that there is less evidence that such pathology…
00:22:28 |
Mon 15 May 2017
CARTA: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny - Responses to Death in Chimpanzees and Other Mammals; Responses to Death in Corvid Birds; Children's Understanding of Death and Mortality
Oxford University's Dora Biro, University of Washington's John Marzluff and Harvard's Paul Harris explore reactions of other animals to death among their own kind, and what and how concepts of death …
00:57:02 |
Wed 10 May 2017
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – Matthias Meyer: The Oldest Human DNA Sequences
Matthias Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) discusses the technical difficulties one faces when working with poorly preserved ancient material and the insights this work provi…
00:19:06 |
Mon 17 Apr 2017
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Daniel Lieberman: Adaptive Shifts Accompanying the Origin of Homo
Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman argues that genus Homo differs from other early hominins through an integrated suite of behaviors, collectively termed hunting and gathering, that emerged sometime between …
00:20:11 |
Mon 10 Apr 2017
CARTA: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny:Human Mortality Denial and Terror Management Theory
Sheldon Solomon explores how humans manage the terror of death, and the larger implications of this quest for immortality via death denial. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training…
00:19:43 |
Fri 07 Apr 2017
Opening Remarks - Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny
Nicholas Humphrey provides opening remarks and context for the CARTA symposium: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Resear…
00:08:54 |
Fri 07 Apr 2017
CARTA: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny: Mind Over Reality Transition: The Evolution of Human Mortality Denial
Ajit Varki gives an in-depth look at how and why the unique human characteristics or abilities of denying reality, self-deception, holding false beliefs, optimism bias and irrational risk-taking beha…
00:19:09 |
Fri 07 Apr 2017
Welcome - Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny
Fred Gage opens the CARTA symposium Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [S…
00:07:11 |
Fri 07 Apr 2017
Wrap-Up QandA Closing Remarks - Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny
Q&A, and Closing Remarks for Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: …
00:36:32 |
Fri 07 Apr 2017
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Leslie Aiello: Evolution of Human Life History Patterns
In this presentation, Leslie Aiello explains that although the fossil record offers clues that cooperative childcare may have been present early in the evolution of genus Homo, the full human life hi…
00:21:58 |
Mon 03 Apr 2017
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Charles Nunn: Shining Evolutionary Light on Human Sleep and Health
Charles Nunn (Duke Univ) identifies selective pressures that may play a role in favoring shorter sleep in humans, and considers the consequences of these evolutionary changes for understanding human …
00:22:12 |
Mon 27 Mar 2017
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - David Haig: The Divided Child
"My mother's kin are not my father's kin." David Haig (Harvard Univ) explains in this talk that this asymmetry results in conflicting selective forces acting on genes of maternal and paternal origin…
00:24:50 |
Mon 23 Jan 2017
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Why Genes that Harm Health Persist; Shining Evolutionary Light on Human Sleep and Health; Adaptations to High Altitude
This symposium brings together experts who offer examples of applications of evolutionary biology and comparative medicine to the understanding, prevention, and treatment of various illnesses. Series…
00:58:22 |
Wed 28 Dec 2016
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – Joshua Akey: A Map of Neandertal Genes in Present Day Humans
Joshua Akey (Univ of Washington) and his team have developed methods to identify Neandertal sequences that persist in the DNA of modern individuals and applied it to whole-genome sequences from over …
00:20:07 |
Mon 26 Dec 2016
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health - Anthropogeny and Medicine-Human-Specific Diseases; Heart Disease; Inflammation and Disease
This symposium brings together experts who offer examples of applications of evolutionary biology and comparative medicine to the understanding, prevention, and treatment of various illnesses. Series…
00:57:22 |
Wed 21 Dec 2016
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Zoobiquity and One Medicine; The Divided Child; Evolving Milk
This symposium brings together experts who offer examples of applications of evolutionary biology and comparative medicine to the understanding, prevention, and treatment of various illnesses. Series…
00:57:51 |
Wed 14 Dec 2016
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Barbara Natterson-Horowitz: Zoobiquity and One Medicine
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz (UCLA) explains in this talk why increasing awareness of the occurrence of "diseases of civilization" in humans and in wild animal species offers a path towards a more empa…
00:14:51 |
Mon 12 Dec 2016
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