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: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future – Abrupt Climate Transitions and Humans; How Humans Took Control of Climate; The Impacts of Arctic Sea Ice Retreat on Contemporary Climate
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…
00:54:14 |
Mon 20 Jul 2015
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Questions and Answers and Closing Remarks
Questions and answers and closing remarks for the symposium Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Sci…
00:04:23 |
Fri 17 Jul 2015
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Charles Kennel: The Impacts of Arctic Sea Ice Retreat on Contemporary Climate
Charles Kennel of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego addresses the impacts of Arctic sea ice retreat on contemporary climate. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Tr…
00:20:24 |
Fri 17 Jul 2015
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Peter deMenocal African Climate Change and Human Evolution
Peter deMenocal of Columbia University on cycles of African climate change and its effect on human evolution. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Sh…
00:18:24 |
Fri 17 Jul 2015
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Rick Potts: Climate Instability and the Evolution of Human Adaptability.
Rick Potts of the Smithsonian Institution addresses how climate instability affected the evolution of human adaptability. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" […
00:19:25 |
Fri 17 Jul 2015
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future: Ajit Varki Welcome Remarks
Co-Director of The Center for Advanced Research and Training in Anthropogen, Ajit Varki, welcomes guests and partcipants to this symposium which presents varied perspectives from earth scientists, ec…
00:05:22 |
Fri 17 Jul 2015
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future – African Climate Change and Human Evolution; The Climatic Framework of Neandertal Evolution; Climate Instability and the Evolution of Human Adaptability
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…
00:56:43 |
Mon 13 Jul 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: David Perlmutter: Combinatoriality within the Word: Sign Language Evidence
In human languages, spoken and signed, words or signs are products of combinatorial systems that combine meaningless smaller units in different ways to yield different words or signs with different m…
00:21:02 |
Mon 06 Jul 2015
CARTA: Is the Human Mind Unique? – Merlin Donald: Skilled Performance and Artistry
Merlin Donald (Queen’s Univ) opines that if one crucial adaptation had to be singled out as the signature move that started the human journey, he would nominate “mimesis,” or body artistry, which is …
00:17:05 |
Mon 22 Jun 2015
CARTA: Behaviorally Modern Humans: The Origin of Us – Michael Hammer: Interbreeding with Archaic Humans in Africa
CARTA: Behaviorally Modern Humans: The Origin of Us – Michael Hammer: Interbreeding with Archaic Humans in Africa
Today there is an abundance of DNA sequence data from the entire genome of contempora…
00:19:56 |
Tue 26 May 2015
CARTA: Is the Human Mind Unique? – V.S. Ramachandran: Inter-Modular Interactions Metaphor and the Great Leap
V.S. Ramachandran (UC San Diego) argues that human mental uniqueness emerged from the fortuitous co-emergence of certain novel anatomical structures and functions and equally fortuitous synergistic i…
00:23:16 |
Mon 11 May 2015
CARTA: Mind Reading: Human Origins and Theory of Mind: Juliane Kaminski: Comparing Apes and Dogs
A key feature of human social interactions is the ability to make inferences about other individuals’ mental states (e.g. others’ knowledge, beliefs and desires). Juliane Kaminski (Univ of Portsmout…
00:17:20 |
Mon 04 May 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Language in The Brain
This CARTA symposium addresses the question of how human language came to have the kind of structure it has today, focusing on three sources of evidence. One source, which is discussed in these thre…
00:58:49 |
Mon 27 Apr 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Edward Chang: Neuroscience of Speech Perception and Speech Production
Edward Chang of UC San Francisco is interested in determining the basic mechanisms that underlie our ability to perceive and produce speech. While much of this processing has been localized to the p…
00:20:03 |
Fri 24 Apr 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Welcome and Introduction
Pascal Gagneux, associate director of CARTA, introduces this symposium which addresses the question of how human language came to have the kind of structure it has today. Series: "CARTA - Center for …
00:05:36 |
Fri 24 Apr 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Wrap-Up Question and Answer Closing Remarks
This CARTA symposium addresses the question of how human language came to have the kind of structure it has today, focusing on three sources of evidence. In this program, the speakers field question…
00:41:07 |
Fri 24 Apr 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Opening Remarks
Roger Levy, Co-Chair of this CARTA symposium on the evolution of Language, introduces the speakers and topics for this symposium which addresses the question of how human language came to have the ki…
00:07:32 |
Fri 24 Apr 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Evelina Fedorenko: Specialization for Language in the Human Brain
Using data from brain imaging investigations and studies of patients with brain damage, Massachusetts General Hospital’s Evelina Fedorenko argues that a set of brain regions in the adult human brain …
00:20:23 |
Fri 24 Apr 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Contrasts Between New and Mature Languages
This CARTA symposium addresses the question of how human language came to have the kind of structure it has today, focusing on three sources of evidence. One source, which is discussed in these thre…
00:58:06 |
Mon 20 Apr 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Mark Aronoff: Co-emergence of Meaning and Structure in a New Language
Mark Aronoff focuses on the emergence of words and lexical categories in new sign languages in this talk. Using naming experiments with groups of non-signing gesturers and signers of new languages, h…
00:20:15 |
Fri 17 Apr 2015
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