CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)

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. From the first flaked stone tools

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 cortex is its organization along a

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. Yet evolution is fundamentally a

CARTA: The Human Brain in its Usual Extraordinary and Compromised States with Bruce Miller

Dr. Bruce Miller, director of the UCSF Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center, examines what neurodegenerative disease reveals about the neural basis of creativity

CARTA: The Transformational Potential of Computer-assisted Brains with Joseph Paradiso

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 Paradiso, Professor in Media

CARTA: The Evolution of the Human Brain through Shifts in Gene Regulation with Miles Wilkinson

A fundamental question in biology is: how did humans acquire their unique characteristics? What allows us to stand upright, while our primate ancestors walked on all four

CARTA: Human Brain Specializations Related to Language and Theory of Mind with James Rilling

Humans excel at transmitting ideas, skills, and knowledge across generations, and at building on those competencies in a cumulative manner. James Rilling, Professor of Ps

CARTA: Hominin Paleoneurology During the Stone Age - and Before! with Dean Falk

The distinct biology of the human brain, scaffolded by language and culture, allows ideas to be formed, named, shared, and accumulated across generations. Dean Falk, Prof

CARTA: Human-specific Alterations in Brain Cellular Proportions with Genevieve Konopka

Our brains are engines of imagination—an “idea organ” that has transformed both our species and the planet. Genevieve Konopka, Chair of the Department of Neurobiology in

CARTA: The Idea Organ - Welcome and Opening Remarks

Humans live in a world of ideas—born in the brain, shared through language, accumulated in culture across generations, and made reality. From the first flaked stone tools

CARTA: Neanderthalizing Brain Organoids with Alysson Muotri

Humans live in a world of ideas—born in the brain, shared through language, accumulated in culture across generations, and made reality. Professor Alysson Muotri, UC San

CARTA: Ancient DNA: New Revelations - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks

Dramatic advances in ancient DNA technologies have revolutionized our understanding of the human past. As part of the CARTA symposium on Ancient DNA, the panelists answer

CARTA: Population Genetics of Latin America and Oceania with Andrés Moreno-Estrada

Genetic data is transforming the understanding of our own species and refining historical chapters at different scales around the globe. However, despite the globalizatio

CARTA: Genetic History of Humans and Animals in South Asia with Maanasa Raghavan

The human genetic history of South Asia has been shaped by its pivotal location at the crossroads of East and West Eurasia, dramatic landscapes such as the Himalayas, and

CARTA: Central Asian Population Genetics and Natural Selection with Ainash Childebayeva

Ancient DNA has revolutionized the study of the human past, providing unprecedented insights into ancient migrations and interactions among populations. Central Asia, due

CARTA: The Genetic History of Europe with Johannes Krause

Over the past decade, archaeogenetics has analyzed more than 15,000 ancient genomes spanning 45,000 years of western Eurasian prehistory, uncovering dozens of migrations

CARTA: Ancient DNA - New Revelations Welcome and Opening Remarks

Dramatic advances in ancient DNA technologies have revolutionized our understanding of the human past. Since the publication of the first ancient human genomes in 2010, t

CARTA: Human Population History in North and East Asia with Choongwon Jeong

The Kazakh and Mongolian Steppes span 5,000 kilometers west to east along the northern latitude of Asia. This unique ecozone allowed rapid movements of people, animals, g

CARTA: Human Microbiome Evolution with Christina Warinner

Humans have a deep and complex relationship with microbes. Beyond disease, microbes also profoundly shape human health and behavior through their activity in the microbio

CARTA: Evolutionary Switches - How Regulatory Variants Shaped Human Evolution with David Gokhman

David Gokhman of the Weizmann Institute of Science explores how changes in gene regulation shaped recent human evolution. His team used massively parallel reporter assays