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: Origins of Genus Homo – Carol Ward: Evolution of Early Human Body Form
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 Ward explains how this may be changing our ideas a…
00:19:13 |
Mon 05 Dec 2016
Understanding Human Evolution: Implications for the Theory and Practice of Medicine
In this inaugural presentation to incoming UC San Diego Medical School students, Dr. Ajit Varki, Executive Co-Director of CARTA, provides an evolutionary perspective on understanding human health and…
00:48:56 |
Fri 02 Dec 2016
CARTA: Baba Brinkman and The Rap Guide to Medicine
Canadian Rap-Artist, award-winning playwright, and former tree-planter Baba Brinkman brings his singular form of "peer-reviewed" Rap to the CARTA symposium Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine a…
00:41:21 |
Fri 02 Dec 2016
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Steven Churchill: Southern Africa and the Origin of Homo
In the last seven years, two hominin species possessing a mixture of primitive and Homo-like morphology – Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi – have been discovered in South Africa. Duke Univers…
00:19:39 |
Mon 28 Nov 2016
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Philip Rightmire: Dmanisi Variation and Systematics of Early Homo
Harvard’s Philip Rightmire describes the rich array of early hominin fossils discovered at the Dmanisi site in the Georgian Caucasus. He maintains that these fossils can most reasonably be attribute…
00:21:44 |
Mon 21 Nov 2016
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health: Welcome and Introduction
Welcome and introduction to the CARTA syposium, Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Sho…
00:06:20 |
Fri 18 Nov 2016
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health: Closing Remarks and Audience Questions
Closing Remarks and Audience Questions for the CARTA syposium, Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny"…
00:20:23 |
Fri 18 Nov 2016
CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health: Opening Remarks Randolph Nesse
Opening remarks to the CARTA syposium, Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 316…
00:04:49 |
Fri 18 Nov 2016
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Bernard Wood: Homo - What Who When Where?
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 have found it? In this talk, Bernard Wood (George Washi…
00:18:58 |
Mon 14 Nov 2016
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – William Kimbel: Australopithecus and the Emergence of Earliest Homo
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 talk that recent fossil and stone tool discoverie…
00:24:18 |
Mon 31 Oct 2016
CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Pascal Gagneux: A Potential Molecular Mechanism for the Speciation of Genus Homo
The human species underwent a watershed change in the biochemical composition of its cell surfaces, via a genetic event estimated to have occurred ~2-3 mya, which is also the apparent period of the…
00:15:14 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Jeff Severinghaus: Abrupt Climate Transitions and Humans
Jeff Severinghaus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego addresses Abrupt Climate Transitions and Humans. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogen…
00:17:47 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
CARTA: Mind Reading: Human Origins and Theory of Mind: Jessica Sommerville: Emergence of Theory of Mind in Human Babies
Jessica Sommerville (Univ of Washington) reviews evidence to suggest that, within the first year of life, infants develop an understanding of transient mental states (such as goals and desires), endu…
00:19:20 |
Thu 08 Sep 2016
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – Johannes Krause: Ancient European Population History
Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) and his research team analyzed more than 200 ancient human genomes spanning the last 10,000 years of Western Eurasian pre-histo…
00:21:13 |
Mon 05 Sep 2016
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – Tony Capra: The Phenotypic Legacy of Neandertal Interbreeding on Modern Humans
Tony Capra (Vanderbilt Univ) and his team analyzed the contribution of common Neandertal variants to over 1000 electronic health record (EHR)-derived phenotypes in ~28,000 adults of European ancestry…
00:22:23 |
Mon 29 Aug 2016
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – María C. Ávila-Arcos: The Genetic History of the Americas
In this talk, María Avila-Arcos (National Autonomous University of Mexico) presents a review of the current state of knowledge of the genetic history of the Americas as revealed by ancient and modern…
00:20:04 |
Mon 01 Aug 2016
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution - Welcome
Pascal Gagneaux welcomes guests to the CARTA symposium: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 30973]
00:07:05 |
Fri 29 Jul 2016
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – Brenna Henn: The Origins of Modern Humans in Africa
Brenna Henn (Stony Brook Univ) explores patterns of genetic diversity across Africa and models for modern human origins in this talk. She discusses whether genetic data is concordant with archaeolog…
00:19:51 |
Fri 29 Jul 2016
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution - Opening Remarks
UC Santa Cruz’s Ed Green delivers the opening remarks for the CARTA symposium: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [S…
00:05:33 |
Fri 29 Jul 2016
CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution-Conclusion Audience Questions and Closing Remarks
Conclusion, Audience Questions and Closing Remarks for the CARTA symposium: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Sho…
00:36:20 |
Fri 29 Jul 2016
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