CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ajiit Varki - Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes
Ajit Varki, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Co-Director of CARTA, and Co-Director...
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CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video)
Multidisciplinary researchers explore the origins of humanity and the many facets of what makes us human.
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20 of 694 episodesCARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Genevieve Konopka -Human-Specific Signaling Networks
Genevieve Konopka is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The focus of her research is elucidating how...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Yoav Gilad - A Comparative Study of Immune Response in Primates
Yoav Gilad is Associate Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He studies genetic and regulatory differences between huma...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Katherine Pollard - Human Accelerated Regions in the Genome
Katherine Pollard, Associate Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and Associate Professor of Biostatistics at UC San Francisco, speciali...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Alysson Muotri - Comparisons of Human and Ape Stem Cells
Alysson Muotri, Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, focuses on human brain development and evolution, exploring mobile elements as generato...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Evan Eichler - Evolution of Human Duplications: Genomic Instability and New Genes
Evan Eichler is an Associate Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. The long-term goal of his research is to understa...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ed Green - The Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes
Richard “Ed” Green, Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, explains how and what we know about our relation to Ne...
CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Elaine Mardis - The Orangu-tan Genome
Elaine Mardis, Associate Professor of Genetics at Washington University and Senior Research Scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories, explores the...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Richerson - Tribal Social Instincts and Human Cooperation
Peter Richerson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Dav...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Donald Pfaff - Brain Mechanisms Underlying Behavior that Obeys the Golden Rule
Donald Pfaff, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, upends our entire understanding of ethics a...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Sarah Hrdy - How Humans Became Such ‘Other-Regarding’ Apes
Sarah Hrdy is currently professor emerita at the University of California, Davis. She is a renowned anthropologist and primate sociobiologis...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Hammerstein - Partner Choice Markets and the Evolution of Cooperation
Peter Hammerstein is a theoretical biologist at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Given his background in game theory and economic...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Steve Frank - Social Evolution in Microbes Animals and Humans
Steve Frank is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. One of his current research projects i...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Patricia Churchland - Brain-Based Values
Patricia Smith Churchland is Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego. The central focus of her research has been the exploration and develop...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism- Christophe Boesch - Ecology of Cooperation and Altruism in Humans and Chimpanzees
Christophe Boesch is Director of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His research tak...
CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Christopher Boehm -Social Selection Versus the Notorious Free Rider
Christopher Boehm is Professor of Biological Sciences & Anthropology and Director of the Goodall Research Center at the University of Southe...
CARTA: Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics: Closing Remarks - Margaret J. Schoeninger
Closing remarks for CARTA’s Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics symposium held in March 2009. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Re...
CARTA: The Idea Organ - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
Humans live in a world of ideas—born in the brain, shared through language, accumulated in culture across generations, and made reality. Fro...
CARTA: Development and Evolutionary Specializations of Human Cognitive Networks with Nenad Sestan
The extraordinary abilities of the cerebral cortex are central to what sets humans apart from other species. A defining feature of the corte...
CARTA: The Costs of Big Brains with Alex Pollen
Human brain expansion is often discussed in terms of the genetic and molecular innovations that drove uniquely human cognitive abilities. Ye...