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CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)

Multidisciplinary researchers explore the origins of humanity and the many facets of what makes us human.
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CARTA: Cellular and Molecular Explorations of Anthropogeny - Arnold Kriegstein: Cellular and Molecular Features of Human Brain Expansion and Evolution

Exploring cellular features of human brain development that are not represented in animal models and may reflect human or primate-specific evolutionary adaptations and how they also provide a roadmap for interpreting laboratory models of human brain development and evolution. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 32972]

Nov 26, 201821 min

CARTA: The Role of Hunting in Anthropogeny: Jill Pruetz - Hunting By Savanna - Living Chimpanzees

Hunting is considered a key human adaptation and is thought to have influenced our anatomy, physiology and behavior over time. This symposium explores the evidence pertaining to the origins of hominin hunting. Chimpanzees living at the Fongoli, Senegal site are the only nonhuman apes thus far that routinely hunt vertebrate prey with tools. Jill Pruetz, Texas State University. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 33574]

Aug 27, 201819 min

CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins: Closing Remarks and Questions and Answers

This symposium explores the evolutionary origins of human imagination, its impact on the sciences and arts, the consequences of imagination impairment, and the fundamental genetic and neurological basis of human imagination. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 33820]

Jul 25, 201840 min

CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins: Polly Wiessner - Imagining Society: The Art of Firelight Stories

This symposium explores the evolutionary origins of human imagination, its impact on the sciences and arts, the consequences of imagination impairment, and the fundamental genetic and neurological basis of human imagination. Pauline Wiessner, Arizona State University, compares day and night conversations and activities of the Kalahari Bushmen to better understand what transpires at during firelit hours and how the atmosphere of the night around hearths draws people into the domain of the imagina...

Jul 25, 201816 min

CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins: Lera Boroditsky - Building Complex Knowledge with Language and Imagination

This symposium explores the evolutionary origins of human imagination, its impact on the sciences and arts, the consequences of imagination impairment, and the fundamental genetic and neurological basis of human imagination. The ability to cognitively transcend the physical is one of the very hallmarks of human intelligence. Lera Boroditsky, UC San Diego. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 33812]

Jul 24, 201820 min

CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins: Lyn Wadley - The Origins of Human Imagination and How Technology Enhances Our Imagination

This symposium explores the evolutionary origins of human imagination, its impact on the sciences and arts, the consequences of imagination impairment, and the fundamental genetic and neurological basis of human imagination. Early H. sapiens took imaginative expressions to new heights. By 100,000 years ago, perforated and ochre-covered marine shells were found in early modern human burials and living sites and thereafter more material culture items convey imagination. Lyn Wadley, University of t...

Jul 24, 201816 min

CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins: Sheldon Brown - What Is Imagination?

This symposium explores the evolutionary origins of human imagination, its impact on the sciences and arts, the consequences of imagination impairment, and the fundamental genetic and neurological basis of human imagination. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 33806]

Jul 24, 201820 min

CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins: Caren Walker - Thinking about the Possible: Imagination and Learning in Early Childhood

This symposium explores the evolutionary origins of human imagination, its impact on the sciences and arts, the consequences of imagination impairment, and the fundamental genetic and neurological basis of human imagination. Ideas about children’s causal reasoning suggests that the same abilities that allow children to learn so much about the world, reason so powerfully about it, and act to change it, also allow them to imagine alternative worlds that may never exist at all. Caren Walker, UC San...

Jul 23, 201818 min

CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins: Agustín Fuentes - Dream It Be It: How Imagination and Creativity Reshaped Human Evolution

This symposium explores the evolutionary origins of human imagination, its impact on the sciences and arts, the consequences of imagination impairment, and the fundamental genetic and neurological basis of human imagination. Meaning, imagination, and hope, are as central to the human evolutionary story as are bones, genes, and ecologies. Agustín Fuentes, University of Notre Dame. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 33807]

Jul 23, 201818 min

CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins - Lyn Wadley Maurice Bloch Lera Boroditsky

This symposium explores the evolutionary origins of human imagination, its impact on the sciences and arts, the consequences of imagination impairment, and the fundamental genetic and neurological basis of human imagination. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 33804]

Jul 19, 201849 min

CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins - Sheldon Brown Agustín Fuentes Caren Walker

This symposium explores the evolutionary origins of human imagination, its impact on the sciences and arts, the consequences of imagination impairment, and the fundamental genetic and neurological basis of human imagination. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 33803]

Jul 19, 201856 min

CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins - Welcome and Opening Remarks

Introduction to the CARTA Imagination and Human Origins symposium. The symposium explores the evolutionary origins of human imagination, its impact on the sciences and arts, the consequences of imagination impairment, and the fundamental genetic and neurological basis of human imagination. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 33802]

Jul 18, 20185 min

CARTA: The Role of Hunting in Anthropogeny - Ian Gilby David Watts Jill Pruetz

Hunting is considered a key human adaptation and is thought to have influenced our anatomy, physiology and behavior over time. This symposium explores the evidence pertaining to the origins of hominin hunting. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 33568]

May 30, 201855 min

CARTA: The Role of Hunting in Anthropogeny: Briana Pobiner - The Ecology of Hominin Scavenging

Hunting is considered a key human adaptation and is thought to have influenced our anatomy, physiology and behavior over time. This symposium explores the evidence pertaining to the origins of hominin hunting. Evidence for meat eating in the form of butchery marks on animal bones made by hominins dates back to at least 2.6 million years ago. Perhaps they didn’t hunt them, but instead scavenged the leftovers from carnivore kills. Briana Pobiner, Goerge Washington University. Series: "CARTA - Cent...

May 10, 201819 min

CARTA: The Role of Hunting in Anthropogeny: Ian Gilby - Pan the Hunter: Ecological Explanations for Chimpanzee Predation

Hunting is considered a key human adaptation and is thought to have influenced our anatomy, physiology and behavior over time. This symposium explores the evidence pertaining to the origins of hominin hunting. Ian Gilby, Arizona State University, argues that the considerable variation in predation frequency within and between chimpanzee social groups is driven by the energetic costs and physical risks that hunting entails. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogen...

May 08, 201819 min

CARTA: The Role of Hunting in Anthropogeny: Rebecca Bliege Bird - Why Foragers Hunt

Hunting is considered a key human adaptation and is thought to have influenced our anatomy, physiology and behavior over time. This symposium explores the evidence pertaining to the origins of hominin hunting. The idea that women have evolved to be plant gatherers and men hunters has dominated evolutionary thinking and the popular imagination for decades. Australia is one of the places that challenges our understanding of who hunts and why. Across Australia prehistorically, women were active hun...

May 08, 201818 min

CARTA: The Role of Hunting in Anthropogeny: Alyssa Crittenden - Nutritional Significance of Meat

Hunting is considered a key human adaptation and is thought to have influenced our anatomy, physiology and behavior over time. This symposium explores the evidence pertaining to the origins of hominin hunting. While the specific role that meat might have played in human evolution remains hotly contested – it certainly changed the playing field for our earliest ancestors. Alyssa Crittenden, UNLV, addresses the nutritional significance of meat and discuss how, during the course of human evolution,...

May 07, 201817 min
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