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: 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
This symposium brings together scientists representing evolutionary biology, genetics, dermatology, anthropology, and physiology to share their knowledge and questions about human skin in an explicit…
00:58:41 |
Wed 30 Dec 2015
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Elizabeth Hadly: A Tipping Point? Using the Past to Forecast Our Future
Elizabeth Hadly of Stanford University delivers a sobering accounting of evidence that forecasts a climatic tipping point and what it may mean to our future. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Rese…
00:20:43 |
Mon 21 Dec 2015
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
This symposium brings together scientists representing evolutionary biology, genetics, dermatology, anthropology, and physiology to share their knowledge and questions about human skin in an explicit…
00:57:27 |
Mon 21 Dec 2015
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – James Cleaver: The Skin and Ultraviolet Radiation: Effects on DNA and Carcinogenesis
In this presentation, James Cleaver of UC San Francisco shares some surprising results from studies of mutagenesis from UV light in two hereditary syndromes -- xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) and Cockayne…
00:16:32 |
Mon 21 Dec 2015
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
This symposium brings together scientists representing evolutionary biology, genetics, dermatology, anthropology, and physiology to share their knowledge and questions about human skin in an explicit…
00:57:57 |
Wed 16 Dec 2015
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Michael Sawka: Human Skin: Sweating Thermoregulation and Water Balance
This talk by Michael Sawka of Georgia Tech examines the role of skin in human thermoregulation as a potentially important evolutionary factor for modern man. Two strong selective factors for surviva…
00:20:37 |
Mon 14 Dec 2015
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin: QandA closing remarks
Closing remarks to symposium on human skin in an evolutionary framework. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 30219]
00:16:51 |
Fri 04 Dec 2015
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Richard Gallo: Skin a Window into the Evolution of the Human Super-Organism
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 skin super-organism. Understanding their relation…
00:19:55 |
Fri 04 Dec 2015
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin: Welcome
Welcome remarks to symposium on human skin in an evolutionary framework. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 30208]
00:04:03 |
Fri 04 Dec 2015
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin: Opening Remarks
Opening remarks to symposium on human skin in an evolutionary framework. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 30209]
00:04:53 |
Fri 04 Dec 2015
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Sarah Millar: Evolution of Hair Follicles Mammary Glands and Sweat Glands in Humans and Other Mammals
Sarah Millar of the University of Pennsylvania summarizes our current state of knowledge of the molecular events that control hair follicle, mammary gland and sweat gland development. She also highl…
00:19:44 |
Fri 04 Dec 2015
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Mark Shriver: The Genetics of Skin Pigmentation
Mark Shriver of Pennsylvania State University explains in this talk how evolutionary approaches to understanding which genes affect pigmentation can provide important insights into both normal develo…
00:19:11 |
Fri 04 Dec 2015
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Mark Stoneking: Of Lice and Men: The Molecular Evolution of Human Lice
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, body louse, pubic louse) can reflect important deve…
00:17:14 |
Fri 04 Dec 2015
CARTA: Unique Features of Human Skin – Chris Kuzawa: Subcutaneous Fat in Humans
In this talk, Chris Kuzawa (Northwestern Uni) argues that human body fat co-evolved not just with the energetically-demanding and vulnerable brain, but also with the cultural strategies that humans u…
00:19:09 |
Fri 04 Dec 2015
CARTA: Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution – Polly Wiessner: Violence: What’s Culture Got to Do with It?
All humans have the capacity for aggression and reconciliation. However, it is cultural institutions that harness aggression by shaping cognition, corresponding emotions and defining appropriate res…
00:19:06 |
Tue 10 Nov 2015
CARTA: Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution – Carol Ember: Resource Unpredictability Socialization and War
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 of violence in a sample of 186 societies. Many …
00:20:48 |
Mon 02 Nov 2015
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Jean-Jacques Hublin: The Climatic Framework of Neandertal Evolution
Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology on the climatic framework of Neandertal evolution. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropo…
00:22:09 |
Tue 22 Sep 2015
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Naomi Oreskes: Human Impacts: Will We Survive the Future?
Renowned historian of science Naomi Oreskes of Harvard University addresses the question of human impacts on climate and whether we will survive the future, and posits that humanity will need to mak…
00:17:38 |
Mon 17 Aug 2015
CARTA: Is the Human Mind Unique? – Daniel Dennett: Humor
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) explores what, in biological terms, sustains this costl…
00:25:17 |
Mon 03 Aug 2015
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
This symposium presents varied perspectives from earth scientists, ecologists, and paleoanthropologists on how climate may have shaped human evolution, as well as the prospects for the future of worl…
00:58:30 |
Mon 27 Jul 2015
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