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UCTV presents experts exploring the diversity of life on Earth and the evolutionary forces that shape it.
Permanent body modification is a unique and variable practice among humans, not observed in other mammals. Despite being costly and risky, i...
In the literature on lip plates in Southern Ethiopia there has been a strong emphasis on their socio-cultural importance and little informat...
Across continents, material evidence of body piercing jewelry abounds in the archeological record. However, the varying procedures and proce...
Archaeological research in Mexico and Central America reveals insights into cultural practices, focusing on the history of body modification...
This talk offers an overview of the many forms of permanent genital modifications embedded in human cultures, where they occur, the reasons...
Bioarchaeological studies of Pleistocene populations, examining practices like tooth ablation, facial piercing, and cranial modification, co...
Today, permanent body modification (PBM) is very popular. Studies suggest that well over a billion living people have experienced one or mor...
Our ability to adapt our bodies to culture has ancient origins. We suggest a timeline for how the culturalization of the human body evolved,...
Permanent body modification is a unique and variable practice among humans, not observed in other mammals. Despite being costly and risky, i...
This talk presents a new account of the development of professional tattooing in Britain and America since the late 19th century. Research b...
This talk explores the 1000-year practice of "footbinding" in ethnically Han Chinese families, involving modifying young girls' feet by wrap...
Comparative Anthropogeny (CompAnth) is the study of distinctly human traits and characteristics in the context of comparisons with our close...
Comparative Anthropogeny (CompAnth) is the study of distinctly human traits and characteristics in the context of comparisons with our close...
Human language is a strong contender for the title of most often named species-specific feature in the literature. But why is that? In this...
Human ovulation lacks visible signs, unlike chimpanzees and bonobos with conspicuous genital swellings during fertility. This led to the con...
Life history theory suggests that inter-birth intervals (IBIs) depend on a trade-off between maternal investment in current and future offsp...
High-altitude adaptation stands out as one of the most notable examples of evolution within our species. Despite similar challenges of decre...
The human genome contains segments of DNA with non-human origins. This introgressed genetic material is remnants of mating events between ea...
The most complex organizations in the living world beside those of humans are the colonies of ants. Mark Moffett will argue that points of c...
Ethnology, also known as cross-cultural analysis or comparative anthropology, involves comparing features of historically documented human s...
Since humans split from their primate ancestors, their brains evolved with a larger mass relative to body weight, more cortical neurons, and...
We know Homo sapiens started in Africa, but we're uncertain about how they spread. Limited fossils and data have hindered our understanding....
The human penchant for storytelling is universal, early-developing, and profoundly culture-shaping. Stories (folk tales, narratives and myth...
Animals and tricksters are highly prominent beings in the mythology of the San Bushmen of southern Africa, as well as of hunter-gatherers in...
Political, financial and environmental crises coupled to the rise of social media have, in recent years, created a perfect storm of mis- and...
In the foundational texts of Western civilisation (the Bible, Iliad), plagues are symbols of divine retribution, signifying Godly displeasur...
As the global response to climate change drives a profound reevaluation of our interaction with fire, there's a timely opportunity to delve...
Humans have been telling stories about animals as long as humans have been telling stories. One story humans tell about animals is the one a...
The human penchant for storytelling is universal, early-developing, and profoundly culture-shaping. Stories (folk tales, narratives and myth...
The hunting hypothesis proposes that the dietary shift to meat procurement was the catalyst favoring a suite of transformative human biologi...
Some 350 to 400,000 years ago when our ancestors gained control of fire, the day was extended to provide many hours for social interaction,...
Why are humans a compulsively storytelling species? Why especially do we invent stories, why do we tell one another stories that both teller...
For more than a century, folklorists have indexed a vast number of the world’s folkloric narratives according to varying structures (i.e. ta...
The origin of humans is a difficult scientific problem in evolution that is grounded in biology and molded by culture. Recent advances in ne...
Pragmatics poses a headache to developers of artificial systems. But how did language evolve to efficiently relay so much pragmatic trickery...
Parallel Architecture is a theory of the mental representations involved in the language faculty. These representations are organized in thr...
Vocal learning is one of the most critical components of spoken language. It has only evolved several independent times among mammals and bi...
Common sense is shared knowledge about people and the physical world, enabled by the biological brain. It comprises intuitive psychology, in...
The emergence of language is routinely regarded as a major (or even the main) evolutionary transition in our species’ history. Much less att...
The origin of humans is a difficult scientific problem in evolution that is grounded in biology and molded by culture. Recent advances in ne...
Highly organized social groups require well-structured and dynamic communication systems. Naked mole-rats form some of the most rigidly stru...
Large language models (LLMs) have now achieved many of the longstanding goals of the quest for generalist AI. While LLMs are still very impe...
Evolution always presented life forms with new challenges -- due to changes in weather, terrain, competition between different organisms, an...
Feedback interconnections are widespread in the brain; yet clear explanations for most of them are currently lacking. Carmen Amo Alonso and...
Anthropogeny, has provided many new discoveries over the past decade, ranging from new fossil finds to ancient DNA data, including from exti...
Anthropogeny, has provided many new discoveries over the past decade, ranging from new fossil finds to ancient DNA data, including from exti...
Anthropogeny, has provided many new discoveries over the past decade, ranging from new fossil finds to ancient DNA data, including from exti...
Anthropogeny, has provided many new discoveries over the past decade, ranging from new fossil finds to ancient DNA data, including from exti...
Anthropogeny, has provided many new discoveries over the past decade, ranging from new fossil finds to ancient DNA data, including from exti...
Current knowledge of our deep past is primarily derived from ancient fossils of our ancestors that paleoanthropologists search for and disco...