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: The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins – Matt Cartmill: Body Fat and Bipedality
Matt Cartmill (Boston University) explains the connection between human body fat and bipedality. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 23671]
00:15:45 |
Tue 14 Apr 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: How Languages Get New Structure
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…
00:56:31 |
Mon 13 Apr 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Ray Jackendoff: What Can You Say without Syntax?
In this talk Ray Jackendoff explores forms of language with very limited organization. Such languages largely lack the familiar manifestations of syntactic structure, but they still manage to map be…
00:20:16 |
Thu 09 Apr 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Carmel O’Shannessy: How Languages Get New Structure
Contact languages represent some of the ways that new languages can be created, as they systematically combine elements from more than one existing language, resulting in novel linguistic systems. W…
00:19:20 |
Fri 03 Apr 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Simon Kirby: Language Evolution in the Lab: The Emergence of Design Features
By realizing that cultural as well as biological evolution has a central role to play in the origins of language, Simon Kirby and his team have unlocked a method that allows them to observe the evolu…
00:21:15 |
Fri 03 Apr 2015
CARTA: How Language Evolves: Ann Senghas: Rethinking Recapitulation: Sources of Structure in Nicaraguan Sign Language
In this talk Ann Senghas traces the development of basic sentence structure and vocabulary in Nicaraguan Sign Language, in order to uncover the effect of language acquisition processes on language em…
00:19:23 |
Fri 03 Apr 2015
CARTA: Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Kristen Hawkes: Grandmothers and the Extended Family
Conjugal families are often assumed to be building blocks of human societies and the primary site of childrearing in traditional communities. Alternatively, Kristen Hawkes (Univ of Utah) contends th…
00:20:26 |
Thu 02 Apr 2015
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: James Noonan - Uniquely Human Gene Regulation
James Noonan, Assistant Professor of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine, focuses on identifying changes in gene regulation during early embryonic development that contributed to the evolution of uni…
00:21:00 |
Thu 02 Apr 2015
CARTA: Behaviorally Modern Humans: The Origin of Us – Alison S. Brooks: East African Archaeological Evidence
Apart from references to the oldest fossil hominins attributed to Homo sapiens, the East African record is often ignored in current scenarios of modern human origins in favor of the much more detaile…
00:22:35 |
Tue 31 Mar 2015
CARTA: The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins – Matthew Tocheri: Insights into Hominin Bipedalism from Gorilla Anatomy
In this presentation, Matthew Tocheri (Smithsonian Institution) shows how the morphology of four foot bones – the medial cuneiform, talus, calcaneus, and cuboid – is clearly distinguishable among liv…
00:17:45 |
Mon 23 Mar 2015
CARTA: Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution – Robert Kelly: Do Hunter-Gatherers Tell Us About Human Nature?
When many people want to discover the core of human nature, they turn to those people who allegedly are or represent humanity’s original condition, hunter-gatherers. Do hunter-gatherers have a speci…
00:19:56 |
Mon 16 Mar 2015
CARTA: Domestication and Human Evolution – Kazuo Okanoya: Domestication and Vocal Behavior in Finches
Kazuo Okanoya (Univ of Tokyo) describes his research with Bengalese finches, a domesticated strain of wild white-rumped munias that were imported from China to Japan 250 years ago. He shows that evo…
00:16:50 |
Mon 02 Mar 2015
CARTA: Domestication and Human Evolution: Introductory Remarks
UC San Diego’s Robert Kluender provides an excellent introductory overview of this symposium which addresses the study of animal domestication, our relationships with domesticated species, and what t…
00:17:06 |
Thu 19 Feb 2015
CARTA: The Origin of Us – Richard Ed Green: Interbreeding with Archaic Humans Outside Africa
CARTA: Behaviorally Modern Humans: The Origin of Us – Richard “Ed” Green: Interbreeding with Archaic Humans outside Africa. Neanderthals and Denisovans are the closest extinct ancestors of modern hum…
00:24:27 |
Wed 18 Feb 2015
CARTA: Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Melvin Konner: Hunter-Gatherer Childhood and Human Evolution
Research on infancy and childhood among !Kung (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers of northwestern Botswana, the first hunting-gathering group where childhood was quantitatively studied, yielded a distinctive …
00:22:40 |
Mon 09 Feb 2015
CARTA: Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution – Donald Pfaff: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying Male Aggression
Donald Pfaff (Rockefeller Univ) addresses two questions in this talk: First, how is it possible to increase testosterone-fueled aggressive behaviors? Second, what does testosterone do, exactly, in …
00:15:47 |
Mon 02 Feb 2015
CARTA: Is the Human Mind Unique? – Nicholas Humphrey: Entering the Soul Niche
Human beings are animal-machines with added souls. This was famously Descartes’ view, and it’s the view of a good many people today. Nicholas Humphrey (Darwin College) is one of them. He contends …
00:15:10 |
Mon 26 Jan 2015
CARTA: Domestication and Human Evolution - Tecumseh Fitch: The Domestication Syndrome and Neural Crest Cells: A Unifying Hypothesis
The neural crest is a transitory embryonic tissue that, early in development, gives rise to a very diverse set of tissues and organs including pigment cells (melanocytes), bones, muscles and connecti…
00:20:04 |
Mon 05 Jan 2015
CARTA: Domestication and Human Evolution – Terrence Deacon: The Domesticated Brain
In this talk Terrence Deacon (UC Berkeley) describes how the signature pattern of specific brain structure changes can provide evidence to distinguish between the processes associated with domesticat…
00:21:19 |
Mon 15 Dec 2014
CARTA: Domestication and Human Evolution - Philipp Khaitovich: Neotenous Gene Expression in the Developing Human Brain
Philipp Khaitovich (PICB, Shanghai) and his team have identified the human-specific delay in timing of neocortical synaptogenesis as one of the molecular mechanisms that potentially underlies the evo…
00:19:23 |
Fri 12 Dec 2014
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