UCTV

CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)

Science EN ↓ 693 episodes

Multidisciplinary researchers explore the origins of humanity and the many facets of what makes us human.

Author

UCTV

Episodes

CARTA: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny: The Lure of Death: Suicide as a Uniquely Human Phenomenon 19.06.2017 21:07

Nicholas Humphrey gives a sobering look at the uniquely human trait of suicide, its alarming prevalence, and what this means to human biological fitness. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 32057]

CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Cynthia Beall: Adaptations to High Altitude 13.06.2017 18:46

In this talk, Cynthia Beall (Case Western Reserve Univ) describes different patterns of adaptive biological characteristics among high-altitude native populations and the accumulating evidence explaining why and how those different responses came about. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 31607]

CARTA: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny - Mind Over Reality Transition: Evolution of Human Mortality Denial; Human Mortality Denial and Terror Management Theory; Lure of Death: Suicide as a Uniquely Human Phenomenon 24.05.2017 57:50

Ajit Varki explores the human capacity for denial of reality and how that has shaped our evolution; Sheldon Solomon different philosophies surrounding mortality; and Nicholas Humphrey provides a comprehensive look at the motivations for, prevalence of and reactions to the uniquely human act for suicide. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID:...

CARTA: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny – What is Fear? And Is Fear of Death Really a Fear?; The Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World; Death as Celebration: Cross-Cultural Perspectives 17.05.2017 57:55

Joseph LeDoux explores the physiological distinctions between human response to fear and anxiety and how that can inform our understanding of behaviors and concepts associated with death and mortality; Colin Renfrew explores representations of death and immortality across time and cultures as a lens with which we can understand different cultural responses to mortality and Rita Astuti examines rit...

CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Michael Gurven: Heart Disease in Hunter-Gatherers? 15.05.2017 22:28

While evidence of atherosclerosis in both ancient and contemporary preindustrial humans exists, Michael Gurven (UC Santa Barbara) explains in this talk that there is less evidence that such pathology is clinically relevant. While there may not be a single smoking gun that explains a human heart-friendly lifestyle, he argues that the importance of a well-regulated immune system may be central. Ser...

CARTA: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny - Responses to Death in Chimpanzees and Other Mammals; Responses to Death in Corvid Birds; Children's Understanding of Death and Mortality 10.05.2017 57:02

Oxford University's Dora Biro, University of Washington's John Marzluff and Harvard's Paul Harris explore reactions of other animals to death among their own kind, and what and how concepts of death develop in children. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 32046]

CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – Matthias Meyer: The Oldest Human DNA Sequences 17.04.2017 19:06

Matthias Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) discusses the technical difficulties one faces when working with poorly preserved ancient material and the insights this work provides into human evolution in the Middle Pleistocene (e.g., the 400,000 year-old hominin remains from a cave site in Northern Spain). Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthrop...

CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Daniel Lieberman: Adaptive Shifts Accompanying the Origin of Homo 10.04.2017 20:11

Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman argues that genus Homo differs from other early hominins through an integrated suite of behaviors, collectively termed hunting and gathering, that emerged sometime between 3 and 2 mya. The emergent properties associated with hunting and gathering made possible increased access to energy. More energy, in turn, led to further selection for increased brain size, larger body...

Wrap-Up QandA Closing Remarks - Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny 07.04.2017 36:32

Q&A, and Closing Remarks for Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 32060]

Opening Remarks - Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny 07.04.2017 8:54

Nicholas Humphrey provides opening remarks and context for the CARTA symposium: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 32059]

Welcome - Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny 07.04.2017 7:11

Fred Gage opens the CARTA symposium Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 32058]

CARTA: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny:Human Mortality Denial and Terror Management Theory 07.04.2017 19:43

Sheldon Solomon explores how humans manage the terror of death, and the larger implications of this quest for immortality via death denial. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 32056]

CARTA: Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny: Mind Over Reality Transition: The Evolution of Human Mortality Denial 07.04.2017 19:09

Ajit Varki gives an in-depth look at how and why the unique human characteristics or abilities of denying reality, self-deception, holding false beliefs, optimism bias and irrational risk-taking behavior; traits that should be evolutionarily maladaptive, developed, and are part of what makes us human. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 3...

CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Leslie Aiello: Evolution of Human Life History Patterns 03.04.2017 21:58

In this presentation, Leslie Aiello explains that although the fossil record offers clues that cooperative childcare may have been present early in the evolution of genus Homo, the full human life history pattern including both extended childhood growth and development and longevity were much more recent evolutionary developments. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthr...

CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Charles Nunn: Shining Evolutionary Light on Human Sleep and Health 27.03.2017 22:12

Charles Nunn (Duke Univ) identifies selective pressures that may play a role in favoring shorter sleep in humans, and considers the consequences of these evolutionary changes for understanding human sleep disorders, health across the lifespan, and health disparities. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 31609]

CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - David Haig: The Divided Child 23.01.2017 24:50

"My mother's kin are not my father's kin." David Haig (Harvard Univ) explains in this talk that this asymmetry results in conflicting selective forces acting on genes of maternal and paternal origin revealed in the phenomenon of genomic imprinting. He provides several examples of disorders of imprinted gene expression. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [...

CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Why Genes that Harm Health Persist; Shining Evolutionary Light on Human Sleep and Health; Adaptations to High Altitude 28.12.2016 58:22

This symposium brings together experts who offer examples of applications of evolutionary biology and comparative medicine to the understanding, prevention, and treatment of various illnesses. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 31598]

CARTA: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution – Joshua Akey: A Map of Neandertal Genes in Present Day Humans 26.12.2016 20:07

Joshua Akey (Univ of Washington) and his team have developed methods to identify Neandertal sequences that persist in the DNA of modern individuals and applied it to whole-genome sequences from over 1,500 geographically diverse individuals. Their data provide new insights into hominin evolutionary history and genomic regions that may harbor substrates of uniquely modern human phenotypes. Series: "...

CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health - Anthropogeny and Medicine-Human-Specific Diseases; Heart Disease; Inflammation and Disease 21.12.2016 57:22

CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Zoobiquity and One Medicine; The Divided Child; Evolving Milk 14.12.2016 57:51

CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health - Barbara Natterson-Horowitz: Zoobiquity and One Medicine 12.12.2016 14:51

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz (UCLA) explains in this talk why increasing awareness of the occurrence of "diseases of civilization" in humans and in wild animal species offers a path towards a more empathic and more accurate understanding of the nature of health and disease. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 31601]

CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Carol Ward: Evolution of Early Human Body Form 05.12.2016 19:13

New fossil evidence of hominin diversity suggests that there was not a single transition to human-like body form in early Homo. In this talk, Carol Ward explains how this may be changing our ideas about the origins of our genus. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 30643]

Understanding Human Evolution: Implications for the Theory and Practice of Medicine 02.12.2016 48:56

In this inaugural presentation to incoming UC San Diego Medical School students, Dr. Ajit Varki, Executive Co-Director of CARTA, provides an evolutionary perspective on understanding human health and disease. Why? Because The biological aspects of medicine are rooted in understanding the evolution of our species, and those of other organisms that interact with us in health and disease. Thus, to pa...

CARTA: Baba Brinkman and The Rap Guide to Medicine 02.12.2016 41:21

Canadian Rap-Artist, award-winning playwright, and former tree-planter Baba Brinkman brings his singular form of "peer-reviewed" Rap to the CARTA symposium Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health with a very special performance of unique Raps on disease, evolution and even the symposium itself. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science...

CARTA: Origins of Genus Homo – Steven Churchill: Southern Africa and the Origin of Homo 28.11.2016 19:39

In the last seven years, two hominin species possessing a mixture of primitive and Homo-like morphology – Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi – have been discovered in South Africa. Duke University’s Steven Churchill believes that these remarkable finds call for new models in not only understanding the origins of genus Homo, but also the emergence of Homo erectus. Series: "CARTA - Center for A...