Evolution (Audio) Podcast
1) CARTA: Lip Plates in Ethiopia with Shauna LaTosky
In the literature on lip plates in Southern Ethiopia there has been a strong emphasis on their socio-cultural importance and little information about their biocultural significance. Shauna LaTosky pro...Show More
2) CARTA: The Recent History of Piercing Practices in Europe and North America with Paul King
Across continents, material evidence of body piercing jewelry abounds in the archeological record. However, the varying procedures and processes of piercing, healing, and stretching these wounds for a...Show More
3) CARTA: Permanent Body Modification in Mesoamerica and Central America with Rosemary Joyce
Archaeological research in Mexico and Central America reveals insights into cultural practices, focusing on the history of body modification. Examining long-term patterns helps unravel motivations for...Show More
4) CARTA: CompAnth - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
Comparative Anthropogeny (CompAnth) is the study of distinctly human traits and characteristics in the context of comparisons with our closest living relatives, the “great apes.” This symposium, the t...Show More
5) CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - The Evolution of Shorter Inter-birth Intervals in Humans with Corinna Most
Life history theory suggests that inter-birth intervals (IBIs) depend on a trade-off between maternal investment in current and future offspring, influenced by the mother's energy and somatic maintena...Show More
6) CARTA: Comparative Anthropogeny - Delayed Neuronal Maturation in Humans with Carol Marchetto
Since humans split from their primate ancestors, their brains evolved with a larger mass relative to body weight, more cortical neurons, and distinct connectivity patterns. Human neurons mature more s...Show More
7) CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - Evolution of Birdsong Learning and Human Spoken Language with Erich Jarvis
Vocal learning is one of the most critical components of spoken language. It has only evolved several independent times among mammals and birds. Although all vocal learning species are distantly relat...Show More
8) CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - Human Languages and Their Cognition(s) with Damián Blasi
The emergence of language is routinely regarded as a major (or even the main) evolutionary transition in our species’ history. Much less attention and awe has been dispensed to the fact that humans ev...Show More
9) CARTA: Artificial Intelligence and Anthropogeny - Learning by Experimenting: Continually Evolving Machines with Pulkit Agrawal
Evolution always presented life forms with new challenges -- due to changes in weather, terrain, competition between different organisms, and other reasons. To increase the chance of survival, instead...Show More