CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)

Humans construct their physical worlds in part by designing and constructing new tools, habitations, and in due course diverse buildings and, in some cases, towns and cities and construct their symbolic worlds by putting words together to tell stories, articulate plans, tell lies, seek truth, and much more. This talk offers hypotheses that address a key question for anthropogeny: How did biological evolution yield humans with the “construction-ready brains” and bodies that made us capable of the cultural evolution that created the diversity of our mental and physical constructs that we know today? Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40161]

James K. Rilling, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, discusses non-invasive brain imaging techniques to compare brain structure and function in monkeys, apes and humans, with the goal of identifying human brain specializations and informing our knowledge of human brain evolution. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 23225]

Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 25401]

Mechanisms Underlying Behaviors That Obey the Golden Rule (Donald Pfaff); How Humans Became Such Other Regarding Apes (Sarah B. Hrdy); Tribal Social Instincts and Human Cooperation (Peter Richerson) Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 21109]

This symposium explores evidence bearing on the emergence of our genus, focusing on possible antecedents to Homo, changes in diet and body form as Australopithecus evolved toward Homo, ancient species within the genus, and evolutionary processes likely operating 2.5 - 1.5 million years ago. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 30634]