CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) Podcast
1) CARTA: Mismatch: Human Origins and Modern Disease - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
The human body has traits that evolved at different times, from 1.5 billion to 2 million years ago, each bringing health benefits and risks. Multicellularity enabled organs and cancer. The immune syst...Show More
2) CARTA: Three Smokes in the Evolution of the Human Exposome with Caleb Finch
Humans have long been exposed to three main types of smoke: from early domestic fires, modern wildfires, and more recently, tobacco and fossil fuel pollution. All release tiny particles from partly bu...Show More
3) CARTA: The Industrialized Gut Microbiome with Justin and Erica Sonnenberg
The human gut microbiome is tightly linked our health. Our analyses of diverse human populations from around the globe, ranging from hunter-gatherer to industrialized, show that the gut microbiome is ...Show More
4) CARTA: Biocultural Reproduction: The Human Style of Hyper-cooperation with Barry Bogin
The essence of Being Human is the practice of Biocultural Reproduction (BCR). BCR is defined as the set of marriage and kinship based rules for extra-maternal cooperation in the production, feeding, a...Show More
5) CARTA: Osteoarthritis Back Problems Difficult Birth - Scars of Our Evolution? with Martin Häusler
Musculoskeletal disorders are one of the most important challenges of modern medicine worldwide. They are often attributed to maladaptations of our body to our peculiar form of locomotion, upright bip...Show More
6) CARTA: Primate Skeletal Gene Regulation: Risks of Human Skeletal Disease Specifically Osteoarthritis with Genevieve Housman
Phenotypic variation within the skeleton has biological, behavioral, and biomedical functional implications for individuals and species. Thus, it is critical to understand how genomic, environmental, ...Show More
7) CARTA: Does the Placenta Drive the Evolution of Cancer Malignancy with Günter Wagner
The rate of cancer and cancer malignancy differ greatly among mammalian species. The placental – maternal interface is also highly variable between placental mammals. This lecture will discuss recent ...Show More
8) CARTA: Mismatch: Human Origins and Modern Disease - Welcome and Opening Remarks
The human body has traits that evolved at different times, from 1.5 billion to 2 million years ago, each bringing health benefits and risks. Multicellularity enabled organs and cancer. The immune syst...Show More
9) CARTA: Cancer is Normal Development Spun Out of Control with Steve Frank
Cancer is normal development spun out of control. It is the great plasticity and power of development, without the overarching controls that guide normal development toward an integrated adult form. I...Show More
10) CARTA: Origins of Love - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
Human beings show a range of emotional attachment, affection, and infatuation often referred to as “love”. Love promotes long-lasting and secure relationships that involve nurturing and support. Biolo...Show More