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Multidisciplinary researchers explore the origins of humanity and the many facets of what makes us human.
Ajit Varki, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Co-Director of CARTA, and Co-Director...
Genevieve Konopka is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The focus of her research is elucidating how...
Yoav Gilad is Associate Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He studies genetic and regulatory differences between huma...
Katherine Pollard, Associate Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and Associate Professor of Biostatistics at UC San Francisco, speciali...
Alysson Muotri, Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, focuses on human brain development and evolution, exploring mobile elements as generato...
Evan Eichler is an Associate Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. The long-term goal of his research is to understa...
Richard “Ed” Green, Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, explains how and what we know about our relation to Ne...
Elaine Mardis, Associate Professor of Genetics at Washington University and Senior Research Scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories, explores the...
Peter Richerson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Dav...
Donald Pfaff, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, upends our entire understanding of ethics a...
Sarah Hrdy is currently professor emerita at the University of California, Davis. She is a renowned anthropologist and primate sociobiologis...
Peter Hammerstein is a theoretical biologist at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Given his background in game theory and economic...
Steve Frank is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. One of his current research projects i...
Patricia Smith Churchland is Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego. The central focus of her research has been the exploration and develop...
Christophe Boesch is Director of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His research tak...
Christopher Boehm is Professor of Biological Sciences & Anthropology and Director of the Goodall Research Center at the University of Southe...
Closing remarks for CARTA’s Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics symposium held in March 2009. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Re...
Humans live in a world of ideas—born in the brain, shared through language, accumulated in culture across generations, and made reality. Fro...
The extraordinary abilities of the cerebral cortex are central to what sets humans apart from other species. A defining feature of the corte...
Human brain expansion is often discussed in terms of the genetic and molecular innovations that drove uniquely human cognitive abilities. Ye...
Dr. Bruce Miller, director of the UCSF Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center, examines what neurodegenerative disease reveals about...
From stone tools and shelters to symbolic art and abstract thought, human history is shaped by a brain built to form and share ideas. Joseph...
A fundamental question in biology is: how did humans acquire their unique characteristics? What allows us to stand upright, while our primat...
Humans excel at transmitting ideas, skills, and knowledge across generations, and at building on those competencies in a cumulative manner....
The distinct biology of the human brain, scaffolded by language and culture, allows ideas to be formed, named, shared, and accumulated acros...
Our brains are engines of imagination—an “idea organ” that has transformed both our species and the planet. Genevieve Konopka, Chair of the...
Humans live in a world of ideas—born in the brain, shared through language, accumulated in culture across generations, and made reality. Fro...
Humans live in a world of ideas—born in the brain, shared through language, accumulated in culture across generations, and made reality. Pro...
Dramatic advances in ancient DNA technologies have revolutionized our understanding of the human past. As part of the CARTA symposium on Anc...
Genetic data is transforming the understanding of our own species and refining historical chapters at different scales around the globe. How...
The human genetic history of South Asia has been shaped by its pivotal location at the crossroads of East and West Eurasia, dramatic landsca...
Ancient DNA has revolutionized the study of the human past, providing unprecedented insights into ancient migrations and interactions among...
Over the past decade, archaeogenetics has analyzed more than 15,000 ancient genomes spanning 45,000 years of western Eurasian prehistory, un...
Dramatic advances in ancient DNA technologies have revolutionized our understanding of the human past. Since the publication of the first an...
The Kazakh and Mongolian Steppes span 5,000 kilometers west to east along the northern latitude of Asia. This unique ecozone allowed rapid m...
Humans have a deep and complex relationship with microbes. Beyond disease, microbes also profoundly shape human health and behavior through...
David Gokhman of the Weizmann Institute of Science explores how changes in gene regulation shaped recent human evolution. His team used mass...
The sequencing of genomes from archaic humans, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, has transformed our understanding of human evolutionary...
The genome sequences of Neandertals and Denisovans have provided a wealth of new information about the origins, migrations, and interactions...
The human body has traits that evolved at different times, from 1.5 billion to 2 million years ago, each bringing health benefits and risks....
Humans have long been exposed to three main types of smoke: from early domestic fires, modern wildfires, and more recently, tobacco and foss...
The human gut microbiome is tightly linked our health. Our analyses of diverse human populations from around the globe, ranging from hunter-...
The essence of Being Human is the practice of Biocultural Reproduction (BCR). BCR is defined as the set of marriage and kinship based rules...
Musculoskeletal disorders are one of the most important challenges of modern medicine worldwide. They are often attributed to maladaptations...
Phenotypic variation within the skeleton has biological, behavioral, and biomedical functional implications for individuals and species. Thu...
The rate of cancer and cancer malignancy differ greatly among mammalian species. The placental – maternal interface is also highly variable...
Menstruation is the cyclical shedding of the endometrium triggered by falling progesterone levels. Menstruation is a rare trait found in les...
Pressures of life on Earth experienced by our ancestors – as multicellular beings, as hosts to parasites, and as home to microbes – shaped t...
The human body has traits that evolved at different times, from 1.5 billion to 2 million years ago, each bringing health benefits and risks....
Cancer is normal development spun out of control. It is the great plasticity and power of development, without the overarching controls that...