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: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - African Genomic Analyses Shed Light on Human Evolutionary History with Sarah Tishkoff
Africa is thought to be the ancestral homeland of all modern human populations within the past 300,000 years. It is also a region of tremendous cultural, linguistic, climatic, and genetic diversity. …
00:25:26 |
Wed 21 Dec 2022
CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Ancient DNA and Anthropogeny with Anne Stone
The first Neandertal DNA was recovered 25 years ago, and since then, ancient DNA has provided many surprising insights into human evolutionary history. Among these are the discoveries of the multiple…
00:15:22 |
Sat 17 Dec 2022
CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Why Should We Care About Anthropogeny? with Pascal Gagneux
Our species is between 300,000 and 200,000 years old. For most of this one-quarter of a million years, up until just 12,000 years ago, it appears that our ancestors lived in small populations, in sma…
00:16:13 |
Sat 17 Dec 2022
CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Genome Structure Variation and the Evolution of Human Specific Genes with Evan Eichler
The discovery and resolution of genetic variation is critical to understanding disease and evolution. Our most recent work sequences diverse human and nonhuman primate genomes using both ultra-long a…
00:26:04 |
Sat 10 Dec 2022
CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Computational Neuroscience and Anthropogeny with Terry Sejnowski
Neuroscience has made great strides in the last decade following the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, a science and engineering grand challenge that h…
00:23:10 |
Mon 05 Dec 2022
CARTA: Imagining the Future of Anthropogeny - Using Stem Cells to Study Human Origins with Carol Marchetto
The human brain has a larger mass with respect to body weight, increased cortical neurons with respect to size, an expanded proliferative zone, and unique connectivity patterns. Human-specific neurod…
00:22:00 |
Sat 26 Nov 2022
CARTA: Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes with David Holway Oliver Ryder and Patricia Hunt
As humans have evolved, so has our ability to drastically alter the planet we call home. In this collection of talks from the CARTA symposium, "Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes" you will learn about …
00:52:01 |
Sat 24 Sep 2022
CARTA: Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes with Rob Knight Alice Gorman and Asher Rosinger
As humans have evolved, so has our ability to drastically alter the planet we call home. In this collection of talks from the CARTA symposium, "Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes" you will learn about …
00:56:40 |
Sun 18 Sep 2022
CARTA: Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes with Walter Willett Jessica Thompson David Tilman
As humans have evolved, so has our ability to drastically alter the planet we call home. In this collection of talks from the CARTA symposium, "Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes" you will learn about …
00:54:30 |
Fri 09 Sep 2022
CARTA - Humans: The Planet Altering Apes - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks (Margaret Schoeninger)
This CARTA public symposia addresses specific examples of how humans have drastically altered the planet. Acknowledged experts discuss clearly defined global-scale negative impacts on planet earth, o…
01:15:56 |
Fri 26 Aug 2022
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Large-scale Human Modification of the Planetary Microbiome with Rob Knight
Through the Earth Microbiome Program and complementary efforts, we have sampled a broad range of microbiomes from across the planet. All microbiomes that have been studied are impacted by human activ…
00:23:36 |
Fri 22 Jul 2022
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Accumulating Space Debris and the Risk of Kessler Syndrome with Alice Gorman
In 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik 1, the first human object to leave Earth. In the 65 years since then the region of Earth orbit has become filled with satellites and space junk. The proliferation o…
00:19:43 |
Fri 01 Jul 2022
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Loss of Species Loss of Genetic Variation and the Future of Earth’s Biota with Oliver Ryder
We are experiencing an accelerated rate of loss of species due to human activities. This anthropogenic phenomenon extends beyond extinction. It encompasses an expanded loss of biodiversity as the gen…
00:18:00 |
Sat 18 Jun 2022
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Global Alteration of the Nitrogen Cycles by Humans with David Tilman
Humans now annually add more biologically available nitrogen to the Earth’s land surfaces than do all natural processes. For 3 billion years, available nitrogen had been the major limiting currency f…
00:17:10 |
Sat 11 Jun 2022
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Sixth Mass Extinction the Tree of Life and the Future of Humanity with Gerardo Ceballos
We are losing species much more rapidly now than in the last two million years! At this pace, we may lose a large proportion of vertebrates, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes…
00:28:47 |
Sat 28 May 2022
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Human Introduction and Dissemination of Invasive Species with David Holway
The introduction of species into new environments has occurred throughout human history. While most introductions fail and most of those few that establish remain environmentally innocuous, a notable…
00:16:12 |
Mon 23 May 2022
CARTA - Humans: The Planet Altering Apes - Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks (Ajit Varki)
This CARTA public symposia addresses specific examples of how humans have drastically altered the planet. Acknowledged experts will discuss clearly defined global-scale negative impacts on planet ea…
00:06:21 |
Mon 23 May 2022
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Human Transformation From Environmental Managers to Ecosystem Damagers with Jessica Thompson
Beginning with Homo erectus at least a million years ago, hominins have used fire to engineer the world around them. The earliest uses of fire surely included cooking, changing the energy yields of f…
00:20:45 |
Mon 23 May 2022
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Anthropogenic Global Water Insecurity with Asher Rosinger
Humans have adapted to meet their water needs across disparate environments over time using behavioral adaptations. Yet, as temperatures rise and freshwater sources become depleted, it is critical to…
00:14:38 |
Sat 21 May 2022
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Humans vs. Humankind: Are Human-Made Chemical Pollutants Impacting Global Fertility? with Patricia Hunt
Human-made chemicals with the unexpected ability to interfere with our body’s endocrine system have become prominent contaminants in daily life. Because the hormones produced by our endocrine system …
00:19:04 |
Mon 16 May 2022
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