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: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: Mike Gazzaniga - A Unified Mind in a Specialized Brain
Mike Gazzaniga, UC Santa Barbara, explores the modular and specialized human brain. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 23223]
00:20:45 |
Fri 16 Dec 2011
CARTA: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: James Rilling - Human Brain Specializations Related to Language
James K. Rilling, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, discusses non-invasive brain imaging techniques to compare brain structure and function in monkeys, apes and humans, with th…
00:19:35 |
Fri 16 Dec 2011
CARTA: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: – Fred Gage -Are There Detectable Differences Between Neurons from Humans vs Great Apes?
Fred H. Gage of the Salk Institute and the University of California, San Diego, describes how induced pluripotent stem cells are used to create functional, developing neurons of humans and chimps, wh…
00:18:55 |
Fri 16 Dec 2011
CARTA: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: Wolfgang Einard - Exploring the Molecular Basis of Speech
Wolfgang Enard, a junior group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, investigates the genetic and molecular basis of human speech. He uses a mouse mod…
00:20:30 |
Fri 16 Dec 2011
CARTA: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: William Hopkins - Evolution of Behavioral and Brain Asymmetries in Primates
William Hopkins, Professor of Psychology at Agnes Scott College and research scientist at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, uses in vivo imaging technologies to assess hemispheric speciali…
00:21:00 |
Fri 16 Dec 2011
CARTA: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: Chet Sherwood - Human Specializations of Cortical Microstructure
Chet Sherwood, Associate Professor of Anthropology at The George Washington University, explains that while a bigger brain is clearly an important factor in our greater cognitive abilities, some of o…
00:21:50 |
Fri 16 Dec 2011
CARTA: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: Todd Preuss - The Burning Brain -Human Adaptation for Enhanced Cerebral Metabolism and Plasticity or: How to Live Fast and Die Old Anyway
Todd Preuss, Emory University, explores specialization of human physiology and the distinctiveness of human aging. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science…
00:19:45 |
Fri 16 Dec 2011
CARTA: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: Katerina Semendeferi - Human Specializatons of the Social Brain
Katerina Semendeferi, UC San Diego, explores the specializatons of the human social brain. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 23224]
00:21:00 |
Fri 16 Dec 2011
CARTA: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: John Allman - Von Economo Neurons
John Allman, Professor of Neurobiology at the California Institute of Technology, discusses the nerve cells called VENS (von Economo neurons) and their relationship to positive social emotions like b…
00:19:00 |
Fri 16 Dec 2011
CARTA: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: Specialization and Language
Leading brain researchers James Rilling, Wolfgang Enard and William Hopkins discuss unique specialization of the human brain, from molecular to structural, and their relation to language. Series: "C…
00:58:25 |
Mon 12 Dec 2011
CARTA: Uniquely-Human Features of the Brain: Plasticity Social Nature Unified Mind
Leading brain researchers Todd Preuss, MIke Gazzaniga and Katerina Semendeferi explore unique specialization in the human brain that may be keys to the brain’s plasticity, our social nature, and the…
00:58:45 |
Mon 05 Dec 2011
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Human-Specific Signaling Networks Uniquely Human Gene Regulation Human Specific Gene Changes
Human-Specific Signaling Networks (Genevieve Konopka); Uniquely Human Gene Regulation (James Noonan); Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes (Ajit Varki) Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research…
00:58:20 |
Wed 03 Aug 2011
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Uniquely Human Gene Regulation Comparing Immune Response In Primates Human Siglec Genes
Uniquely Human Gene Regulation (James Noonan); A Comparative Study of Immune Response in Primates (Yoav Gilad); Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes (Ajit Varki) Series: "CARTA - Center for Academi…
00:59:05 |
Wed 27 Jul 2011
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Gene Duplications and Deletions and Accelerated Regions in the Human Genome
Evolution of Human Duplications: Genomic Instability and New Genes (Evan Eichler); Human Accelerated Regions in the Genome (Katherine S. Pollard) Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Tra…
00:55:55 |
Wed 20 Jul 2011
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: The Neanderthal and Denisovan Genomes / The Genetics of Human and Ape Stem Cells
Comparisons of Human and Ape Stem Cells (Alysson Muotri); The Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes (Ed Green) Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show I…
00:52:40 |
Wed 13 Jul 2011
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: The Orangutan Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes
Elaine Mardis explores the Orangutan genome, and Ed Green explains how and what we know about our relation to Neandertal. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" […
00:50:15 |
Wed 06 Jul 2011
CARTA: Early Hominids: African Origins of the Hominid Clade
Renowned paleoanthropologist Tim White of UC Berkeley who is widely credited for his role in the Ardi discovery gives a fascinating overview of the search for the origins of Hominids in Africa. Serie…
00:25:30 |
Mon 16 May 2011
CARTA: Early Hominids: Ronald Clarke - Little Foot Big Find - A Skeleton of Australopithecus
Eminent paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke describes the find and implications of “Little Foot,” the oldest Australopithecine find in Southern Africa. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and…
00:28:40 |
Mon 09 May 2011
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Biology of Cooperation Suppressing theFree-Rider Social Ecology and Cooperation
Social Selection and the Notorious Free-Rider (Christopher Boehm); Social Evolution in Animals and Humans (Steve Frank); Ecology of Cooperation and Altruism (Christophe Boesch)
Series: "CARTA - Cen…
00:58:10 |
Wed 27 Apr 2011
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - The Golden Rule Why We Care Tribal Instincts and Cooperation
Mechanisms Underlying Behaviors That Obey the Golden Rule (Donald Pfaff); How Humans Became Such Other Regarding Apes (Sarah B. Hrdy); Tribal Social Instincts and Human Cooperation (Peter Richerson)
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00:59:25 |
Wed 20 Apr 2011
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