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 Evolution of Human Nutrition – Alyssa Crittenden: Current Hunter-Gatherer Diets
Alyssa Crittenden (Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas) reports on the diet composition and foraging profiles of the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. The significance of meat, tubers, and honey is addresse…
00:19:48 |
Fri 22 Mar 2013
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Nutrition – Clark Spencer Larsen: Agriculture’s Impact on Human Evolution
Clark Spencer Larsen (Ohio State Univ) explores what anthropologists have learned about the alterations of the lives, lifestyles, and wellbeing from the study of bones and teeth of our recent ancesto…
00:19:11 |
Fri 22 Mar 2013
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Nutrition – Alison S. Brooks and Margaret J. Schoeninger: Neanderthal Diets
Alison S. Brooks (George Washington Univ) and Margaret J. Schoeninger (UC San Diego) provide an overview of Neanderthal diets based on the physical evidence, archaeological data, and bone composition…
00:24:04 |
Fri 22 Mar 2013
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Nutrition - The Impact of Agriculture on Human Evolution The Impact of Globalization on Children's Nutrition and Current Hunter-Gatherer Diets
Tracing the evolution of the human diet from our earliest ancestors can lead to a better understanding of human adaptation in the past. It may also offer clues to the origin of many health problems …
00:56:10 |
Mon 25 Feb 2013
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Nutrition - An Overview of Diet and Evolution; Fire Starch Meat and Honey and Diets and Microbes in Primates
Tracing the evolution of the human diet from our earliest ancestors can lead to a better understanding of human adaptation in the past. It may also offer clues to the origin of many health problems …
00:56:44 |
Wed 20 Feb 2013
CARTA: The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins – Leslie C. Aiello: Bipedalism and the Evolution of the Genus Homo
Leslie Aiello (Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research) reviews the historical development of ideas in relation to the evolution of bipediality. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Resea…
00:22:40 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins – Steven Churchill: Pelvic Architecture of Australopithecus sediba and the genus Homo
Steven Churchill (Duke University) talks about the evolution of the human pelvis and the major architectural changes which reflect an improvement in the ability of this structure to engage in bipedal…
00:20:00 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins – Dan Lieberman: The Evolution and Relevance of Human Running
The fastest humans sprint slowly and for very limited durations compared to most quadrupedal mammals, but even average humans have superlative long distance running capabilities in terms of speed and…
00:20:55 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: Culture-Gene Interactions in Human Origins: Anna Di Rienzo - Human Adaptations to Diverse Environments
The history of human evolution and dispersal was associated with remarkable environmental challenges to those processes that maintain stable physiological conditions. Indeed, environmental change ov…
00:19:25 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: Culture-Gene Interactions in Human Origins: Gregory Wray - Genomic Basis for Dietary Shifts during Human Origins
As our australopithecine ancestors moved out of receding rain forests and into drier habitats, they abandoned a primarily fruit-based diet and began consuming more meat and tubers. This increase in …
00:19:25 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins – Jeremy DeSilva: Foot and Ankle Diversity in Australopithecus
Jeremy DeSilva (Boston University) shares his insights into the foot and ankle diversity of australopiths and refutes the hypothesis that there is only one kinematic way to be a striding biped. Serie…
00:19:20 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: Culture-Gene Interactions in Human Origins: Peter Richerson - Culture-led Gene-culture Coevolution
In the classic nature-nurture dichotomy, nature has a stronger or weaker influence on nurture, but certainly nurture was supposed to have no impact on nature. Human culture is often taken to be a for…
00:18:55 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: Culture-Gene Interactions in Human Origins: Sarah Tishkoff - Adaptations of Humans to Adult Milk Intake
In most individuals, the ability to digest lactose, the sugar present in milk, declines rapidly after weaning because of decreasing levels of the enzyme lactase in the small intestine. However, there…
00:19:30 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins – Brian Richmond: Pleistocene Footprints and the Evolution of Human Bipedalism
Efforts to reconstruct gait and other aspects of behavior in extinct hominins continue to be hampered by disagreements over how to interpret anatomical evidence from the fossil record. Brian Richmon…
00:20:45 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins – Carol Ward: Early Hominin Body Form
Carol Ward (University of Missouri) reviews the growing, although still imperfect, evidence for torso form in apes and early hominins, and relates that to hypotheses about the origins and early evolu…
00:20:50 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins – Christopher Ruff: Limb Strength Proportions and Locomotion in Early Hominins
Christopher Ruff (Johns Hopkins University) interprets the analyses of forelimb and hindlimb bone strength in a number of early hominin taxa. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Trainin…
00:16:45 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: Culture-Gene Interactions in Human Origins: Alison Brooks – Origins of Modern Human Behavior
What constitutes the essential behavior of our species is contentious. Evolutionary scenarios leading to both the capacity for and practice of these essential behaviors are even more debated. Genetic…
00:21:20 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: Culture-Gene Interactions in Human Origins: Henry Harpending - A Nutritional Basis for the Spread of Indo-European Languages
Indo-European languages are native to populations from Ireland to Afghanistan and India and, in historical times, to the Tarim Basin in China. This spread occurred within a few thousand years carried…
00:19:20 |
Fri 15 Feb 2013
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Nutrition - Archaic Human Diets Current Hunter-Gatherer Diets and Diets and Microbes in Primates
Tracing the evolution of the human diet from our earliest ancestors can lead to a better understanding of human adaptation in the past. It may also offer clues to the origin of many health problems …
00:56:34 |
Wed 13 Feb 2013
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Nutrition - Diets and Microbes in Primates Australopith Diets and Neanderthal Diets
Tracing the evolution of the human diet from our earliest ancestors can lead to a better understanding of human adaptation in the past. It may also offer clues to the origin of many health problems …
00:58:13 |
Mon 04 Feb 2013
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